Refinishing an Old Hazy Windscreen

[niclpnut]

My replacement windscreen for the 1100es developed a crack around one of the mounting holes and instead of buying another one I decided to refinish an old oem screen.

Started with this:

I bought a headlight refinishing kit from harbor freight and some Meguiar's Plastx.

Following the instructions I did several passes with progressively finer sanding pads using a hand held drill on both sides. Make sure to sand enough with each pad or you are going to have to repeat some steps.

Finished up with Meguiar's Plastx. 7-8 passes.

Still some fine sanding marks, but alot better than before :

Polished it a little more to get some of the swirl marks off.

Nic

 

[Guest]

Mothers brand aluminum polish works too. I use it with their foam cone shaped polishing tool on a cordless drill.

 

[Guest]

The best products are the aircraft window polishing polish. All aircraft with little exception use plastic in the windows. Check out Aircraft spruce supply. Other than that look at the kits made to polish out cloudy headlight lenses. There is a liquid that is more like a wax that helps. You need the super fine abrasive type product for a good fix. You can make it as transparent as glass with the super fine abrasive type product

 

[Guest]

If you get in a bind for a windscreen I'm sure Leif can make you one or it probably doesn't exist: http://bikescreen.com/collections/suzuki/GS-700-750-1100-ESD

 

[niclpnut]

That's where I purchased my last replacement.

Nic

 

[Guest]

I have had had his Sport Touring screen on my Wes Cooley fairing for years. I broke it trying to take a shortcut putting some new mirrors on the bike (handlebar mount) without completely removing the screen. I had already started some cracks at several mounting holes by over tightening the screen and just stupidly finished the job by being sloppy. When I got the replacement screen I cracked it drilling the holes. It was like the monkey and the football, quite entertaining. I think the medication I'm on had a big part of it. I sent him a template of the hole spacing. It matched his fairing. He sent me a new one holes drilled at a discount. Follow the directions and they never break. I had gotten a gallon of acetone for the shop so I'm going to weld the cracked screen for a spare. My old Harley mechanic buddy swears it can be done and all the damage done by stray acetone and over the weld can be buffed out, so the entertainment continues. By the way, I have gotten a white stick plastic buffing compound at Home Depot in the past that completely buffed a deep scratch out of an old PlexiFairing. It's a combination of the compound and the buffing wheel you use. Again advise from my old Harley mechanic buddy Squirrel.

 

[steve murdoch]

Nice work, Nic.
I remember in the old days using toothpaste.
Middling results but smelled nice the first time it rained.