Hazed over lights

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Hazed over lights

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I have a haze on my 93's lights. Anyone know how I can get rid of it?
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What josh did works hella well. If you dont have acetone, rubbing alcohal works great too :D
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Post by J-MoNeY »

I hear that silver polish and steel wool get the job done quite nicely.
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Post by vrg3 »

Polish and alcohol both help, but you have to actually remove the outer layer of plastic to get back to 100%. Josh's method does that.

Laurel also has her own method which is kind of a shortcut:

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=1939

She basically uses metal cleaner instead of sandpaper, and then fills in all the miniscule imperfections with wax. I don't know if that works as well as sanding and clearcoating.
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as vrg3 mentioned.....you really need to remove the outer layer of plastic for this to be truly effective. I had sanded everything and thought it was good. When I applied the acetone, there was still yellow there that was coming off on the paper towel. Once I got all the yellow wiped off and it was just white plastic.....then I started sanding again until surface was to my satisfaction.

Then I painted.
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I just used some plastic cleaner on mine, along with some plastic polish. However, the lights weren't all that yellow to begin with, just a little dirty...
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