Tips to Eliminate Scratches on The Glass Helmet

The new helmet feels comfortable when worn compared with a helmet that has long been used. Besides helmets were dirty and smelly, the other problem on the helmet which often results in uncomfortable was visor there are scratches.

Glass Helmet
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Etched glass helmet which resulted in the view becomes less obvious and often the cause is not the focus when riding a motorcycle. If you have experienced this, do not immediately replace it with a new visor, because the tips below will give you the knowledge of how to eliminate scratches on the glass helmet without replacing them with new ones.

Cause scratch visor that is often found is due to dirt. When we ride a motorcycle on rainy conditions, visor will wet with rain water and dirt often in the form of small mud splattered on the glass helmets of the tires of other vehicles that are in front of us. If not immediately cleaned up, when the rain had stopped the dirt on the glass helmet will rapidly dry up because of the wind. And when we have reached our destination quickly as possible to clean with a clean cloth or paper towel. In part this is usually the glass will easily scratched because the mud was sticking to contain substances that rough.

When we try to give a little water to moisten the cloth, and glass helmet began to be cleaned, the dirt and dust will be attached to the surface of the glass.

Dirt and dust will scratch the visor because the shuffle of cloth. This will cause fine scratches on the surface of the glass helmet. So that would make helmet glass refracts when the light hit the vehicle in front of the eyes will be dazzled result.

There are ways to remove scratches on the glass helmet. Here are the tips or ways that arguably the most secure.

1. Prepare a fine sandpaper, shampoo or liquid soap, fine fabrics, and fluid polished or white rubber compound.

2. Lepaslah visor for easy when cleaning. Wash the glass helmet with soapy water so that the dirt more quickly separated.

3. Clean dirt on the surface of the glass by hand and soap mixed with sandpaper visor slowly.

4. Do it carefully, do not forget to make sure the water with soap continues to wet the glass helmet.

5. To test whether resistant helmet sanded glass, start from the very edge of the side glass, do it gradually.

6. The next step, clean the glass opaque at the helm. Clean the glass using a dull white helmet rubber compound. Suggested use a soft cloth that does not add etched glass.

7. Apply the compound on the glass, then wipe until no more white-white in glass helmet. For more leverage, do repeatedly until the scratch completely disappeared.

Good luck.