Spectacles' Lens Polishing. . .

[Digger]

I did a quick Google and realised there are quite a few home brew methods for polishing out scratches etc from your specs' lenses, but not feeling brave enough to try them myself. I'm fairly certain mine are glass, but not 100% though!

Anyone successfully returned theirs back to near perfectly see-through? I guess the bonus of using a company is they can re-coat them with protection etc?

Can anyone recommend a company who could do mine for me? I'm in central London.

[Digger]

Bump for the evening crowd.

[Oakey]

I tried T Cut once, worked great on my watch face, not so great on my glasses (an old pair)!

[Peanut Gallery]

The point of prescription glasses is to have different thicknesses of glass (or plastic) across the lens. polishing this, even by a very small amount, will change the prescription.

I wish it could be done, I scratched my first pair of glasses on the 2nd day I had them.

Sorry, scratches cannot be polished out of glasses!

[Moulder]

Oakey said:

I tried T Cut once, worked great on my watch face, not so great on my glasses (an old pair)!

How did it work on your wallet and tes...

[Digger]

They aren't really scratches, just scuff marks and an area which looks 'worn'. Polishing would certainly work on these as they are really just for watching tv after I've taken out my contacts. New glasses are so expensive these days.

[weeboot]

If your glasses have a coating, it will be that which is delaminating. It does tend to last about 2 years before starting to break down, it gets worse from there on in.

Chuck some new lenses in, they aren't actually that expensive.

[cringle]

1. Your lenses are 99% likely to be plastic
2. You cannot polish plastic
3. It is likely to be the coating coming away
4. New lenses usually about £80

[cringle]

1. Your lenses are 99% likely to be plastic
2. You cannot polish plastic
3. It is likely to be the coating coming away
4. New lenses usually about £80