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Sure thing. It was pretty simple actually:
I used a spray bottle of water and a little dish soap as a lubricant. I kept the area very saturated during my sanding activities.
Make sure you tape up the perimeter of the headlight with painters tape to protect the finish on the car.
Sanded with 500,1000,1500 and 2000
Finished it up with my old variable speed makita buffer at maybe 1500 rpm and an old beat-up foam pad.
For polish I was using some strata cutting cream that I've had for about 11 years now. It's all dried-up mostly but throw a little water in there, shake it up and it'll do the job. The buffer and cutting cream are left-overs from when I painted my VW back in 2003. Pretty sure you can find something suitable at an auto parts store.
As a finishing polish I picked up some meguires "plastic-x" or something like that from harbor freight. It's much more fine than the cutting cream I mentioned above.
I found buffing with the lights on was helpful. After you are done buffing clean the lens really well with rubbing alcohol before you seal it.
Mix-up 50/50 (like a couple tablespoons each) minwax helmsman spar urethane and mineral spirits. Fold up a paper towel into roughly a 1x2 rectangle and dip in the solution.
Wipe around the entire perimeter of the lens then wipe horizontally across the lens to cover with a very thin layer of the urethane mixture.
It looks like a new lens. It seriously exceeded my expectations!!!
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Garrett Fell
2014 Honda Pilot - The *new* wife mobile
2005 BMW X5 - 4.4i - It's mine now!
2003 Honda CRV - My train car
1959 VW Beetle - My toy (13.18 @ 100.86 in the 1/4)
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