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Re: [Phys-l] plastic lens scratch repair?

Before leaving it on a windshield until it's difficult to get off, try looking through it with polarized sunglasses on -it may not be so tranparent.

Been there - done that :-)

Bob at PC
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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] on behalf of Bernard Cleyet [bernardcleyet@redshift.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:28 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] plastic lens scratch repair?

On 2011, Aug 30, , at 13:16, John Denker wrote:


I used a tiny piece of Scotch Shipping Packaging Tape.
You tell by looking at the roll that the tape is very
clear.


Wow!

Yes, if the "glue" were absent, then the multilayers would make a mirror.

It's a ready made Canada balsam.

bc has a bottle of somewhere.


• to fix scratches in glass (car glass for instance) as invisibly as possible.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_balsam
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