Removing screen scratches

[Daren]

One of my LZ64 had quite a lot of fine scratches on the screen, well the clear plastic screen cover to be more accurate. I used “Brasso” https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/pr ... lish-175ml polish, a brass and other metal liquid polish and with a few minutes of elbow grease was able to remove most of the scratches and overall make it look much much better, almost like new.

I knew of this trick for years for car headlight lenses and watch bezels, maybe most people of a certain age do, but anyway I thought it might be interesting to let other Psion users know that it works well on Psions too.

[thesourcerer]

I think I’ve posted this one before, yes even some quite deep scratches can be polished out. I use Solvol Autosol, but most metal polishes will do it. You can of course finish with Perspex polish.

[amenjet]

I think I’ve posted this one before, yes even some quite deep scratches can be polished out. I use Solvol Autosol, but most metal polishes will do it. You can of course finish with Perspex polish.

I was going to mention Autosol,


I have used that to polish quite a few things. It's more of a paste than a liquid. For plastic I have also used the graded polishing pads and sheets of abrasive that are used to polish pen blanks after they have been turned., You go from a very coarse grit up to something like 12000 grit I think, and the finish ends up glass like. Quite expensive, though as specialised, but works well.
I've also used 'DVD polish' from DVD polishing kits, but as DVDs are now obsolete, I'm not sure you can still buy it. You can buy tubes of different grades of polishing grit on ebay, but I haven't used them much.

Hmm, not heard of perspex polish, have you a link?


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383842847021 ... BMjP7957Zk

https://www.axminstertools.com/micro-me ... ves-211365

https://www.axminstertools.com/micro-me ... ves-211364

[Daren]

I think I have a tube of Autosol knocking around somewhere which I have had for about 30 years A little goes a long way, I used to use it on my Morris Minor to get the chrome looking nice, the cap is shaped like a hex nut IIRC. I think Brasso is a little less abrasive, maybe.

[xchris]

I usually use Displex or Polywatch, on cotton wool always, not towels/paper etc.