Glass polishing leaving very fine swirl

[Manix]

Well I just got done doing another test area this time using more ceriglass & alot more water so it stayed quite wet the whole time. The end result was fine swirl still under LED inspection. Just a fact of life & you probably wan`t see it at all in ordinary light sources. Is there such a thing as a softer glass?

Same thing happens when polishing up plastic headlight covers because there is no applicator that removes scratches without leaving its own. By the sounds of things any alternative to rayon will do the same on glass.

How warm can the tempered glass get? I travel the D/A about 1cm per second with decent pressure & by the time I got back second pass its cooled down alot.

 

[Accumulator]

Manix- I hope the residual (hopefully MICRO) Marring doesn`t bug you in certain conditions.

Yes indeed, the hardness of modern Autoglass can vary significantly! The TriPlex in my Jag is so soft it came with warning stickers about how gentle you gotta be with it. I figure it has to do with the "plastic" component that differentiates today`s Autoglass from yesterday`s.

Glass can get pretty hot without problems (consider cars left outside in AZ during the summer), but *localized* heat can be weird so don`t go nuts on one small area.

There oughta be *some* applicator that`ll work without contributing its own marring. Consider how so many abrasives are too gentle to work on the lenses and how so many applicators/etc. are softer/safer than those abrasives. Not that *I* have any suggestions

Stokdgs- Thanks for the reassurance that the products/process will be Accumulator-proof. If, uhm...I mean "when"...I use up the RainX, now I have a plan

Cool about that moth!

 

[Setec Astronomy]

If, uhm...I mean "when"...I use up the RainX, now I have a plan

Oh gosh, you too? One of these years...

I`m THIS close to throwing out my 80`s E1 glass polish...I really think it`s the reason I sometimes have so much trouble with RainX. But it has that metal polish smell, so it must have some good stuff in there, right?

 

[Accumulator]

Setec Astronomy- Well, I have (what I can rationalize as) a good excuse for using the RainX: with its " wiper dead zone" the Crown Vic needs something, and the PO used RainX so refreshing it is an easy solution. I also wonder how long any Glass Sealant will last given how often I clean it (manually).

I wasn`t too impressed with the RainX when I used it on a 911 back in the day, but it isn`t that bad on the CV.

I do find the RainX utterly Accumulator-proof (and doing that huge windshield without being able to prop up the wipers much isn`t easy), so maybe your E1 *is* the culprit. The same stuff that imparts the Metal Polish Smell might be leaving behind an undesirable residue...like every single Glass Polish I`ve used seems to do. I`ve gotten SO cynical about such products simply because *none* of `em have ever worked nearly as well as just using a regular compound/polish and then scrubbing it with that Zep40 Glass Cleaner I like so much. Haven`t tried that on the CV though...