Had an employee smoke glass with some cc550. Checked it out today and I checked it out. I took my finger and started rubbing on the glass just out of curiosity and the smoking really lightened up a lot. I was thinking it might polish out with some diamond magic or something Similar. Anyone have any experiences with this. If i can’t fix it, it’s a few single panes of glass on a mobile home so shouldn’t be too major. Thoughts?
it’s a special effect, charge them extra. sorry non productive reply.
Try some cerium oxide it doesn’t look to bad you might try some “A-MAZ” they sell it at Ace hardware and maybe at HD.
You got to be real carefully with manufactured home window and acid “cc550” those window are cheap.
Hope this helps!
heres a pic of the A-Maz.
he said some rubbed off with his finger so it must be outside. PAY ATTENTION @Skipper !!! 
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because it takes a long time to rub down an entire window with your finger and at the end you have no finger!!! lol
HEY, so am i!!!
i thought it was from the land down under where women glow and men chunder!?
stop or we’ll get banned
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seriously if a finger works i wonder about a magic eraser
Magic Eraser would probably do but that is a lot of rubbing to do a whole window or multiple windows.
0000 steel wool or brass wool and solution or A-Maz. I get a white pad wet and scrub A-Maz on then mop and squeegee. Real tuff stuff requires more advanced deposits cleaner.
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It would be interesting to see if one of my SRC pads worked on it.
Henry
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Rubbing it with your finger works temporarily because the oils are filling in the pores and making the surface appear more clear. Once you clean the oils off, the haze reappears. It’s sort of like how a piece of etched glassware will appear clear(er) when it’s being washed in the sink.
Cerium oxide will remove tin etch haze. It’s labor intensive, though. I would recommend getting one of @Henry’s wobble wheels and some SRC pads. That should make this repair go quicker.
I highly doubt that magic erasers, wool, or any other type of scrubbing tool will make this better.
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A couple months ago we cleaned a new condo and their solid balcony windows. After only one year after it was built their solid balcony windows looked awful. It’s just by the ocean. First I made a test with RubOut, but no big effect. Then cc550 and bang - Like new.
We did the whole condo and the invoice was going to the builder who had guaranteed no-maintenance windows (!).
One owner begged me to clean her glazed windows above the solid. Alcott windows with also cc550. I said ok. I cleaned the windows - they were looking perfect. She was so happy. One day later she calls me and says something has happened with the windows. I get there and find that in one special kind of sunlight you can see they have been smoked.
“I can’t live like this - I have to move”, she was no telling me. I was thinking “Look at the news and how people live in Syria… get some perspective”…
It was then understood that the solid balcony glass and and glazed ones was from different companies, but still they both were hardened glass. So still I don’t know what really happened.
However we made a deal. She wanted new glass and we split on the deductible from the insurance company. Cause it was she who hade insisted that she wanted me to clean with cc550.
After this I learned some things.
- Always write a waiver when using cc550.
- Use cc550 always when you must. Do you guys use it often?
- I should have been ha member here earlier. Maybe I then would have read something who could have repaired and saved the glass. I know very little about glassrepair.
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