In the summer of '08, during the annual Boy Scout trip to Scout Island, an island in the southern portion of the Great Sacandaga Lake, my forward hatch became home to some Scout butt. Not firmly planted butts, but butts of the "I can't sit still butts". Butts that adorned wet, gritty, sandy shorts sat upon my brand new, newly installed forward hatch window. My crystal clear Lexan now had a series of butt sliding scratches from top to bottom. Being the kind of guy that can take a lot, and don't get mad at to much, my heart just sank. Kids are kids, and "new" rules were made. "Nobody sits their ass on my window anymore"! OK, maybe I was mad a tad, but man, all of that work redoing my hatch! It was brand new!
Well it took some time to research a product that I could use to get rid of those nasty scratches, and I decided on a product line called Novus. It comes in individual bottles, or as kits. I bought the 8oz. kit, which included #3, course grit, #2 medium grit, #1 fine. After seeing some guy take some serious scratches out of a clear Lexan motorcycle wind shield on the web, I was convinced that this was the product for me. I just hoped that it would work on smoked lexan.
I ordered the kit from a company called Plastic-Craft Products .com, 744 West Nyack Road, West Nyack, NY 10994 Their phone number is 845-358-3010 The 8oz. kit was around $16.00. I ordered it online one day and it came the next, very fast indeed. To find the nearest distributor near you, call 1-800-548-6872, or check out http://www.novuspolish.com/
I laid down a nice soft cotton towel on the kitchen table and laid my piece of Lexan down on it. I first cleaned the Lexan with water only using a soft clean cotton rag, and dried it well. I then took another soft cotton rag and squeezed out a dab of #3 and started the "across the grain" movement on the worse scratches. I worked each dab of #3 at 90 degree angles to the scratches till it dried, and then wiped it clean with still another clean cotton rag and repeated the process again and again. I hate scratches in anything, so I worked using #3 for about three hours, (they were deep), until those deep scratches were completely out, as well as the other scratches that were embedded in the Lexan. I simply could not believe how well this product worked. I was happy and amazed. I then went to using #2, which removed the fine scratches left from #3. That went a lot quicker, and with each application, I could see the luster of my Lexan come back to life. I finished with #1 and the results were like new. I'm very happy now.
So with the '09 sailing season coming soon, I will sail again, proud, with a new sparkling forward hatch.
Jay
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