Sanded My Loading Door "Glass"

Hey Fred, How about some pics of the clean window, partner!!

2001Sierra wrote:I can only imagine sanding will only be worse.

I wouldn;t think it's going to work well with just 220 but if you if you work your way down to 2000 and then hit it with some rubbing compound you can probably get it like brand new.

Today I'll get some 2000 or as close as I can find local--if I could figure how to kill my flash, pix would look better I'm sure:) This pix in NO WAY does justice to the sanding progress!! I can see pretty clearly into the fire box believe it or not LOL

Fred, you can't jump from 220 grit to 2000 grit. You will need to go through 4 or 5 intermediate grit sizes first. Actually you can polish out after 1,200 or so grit (~9 micron), but the finer the grit size you go to, the easier it is to polish out from there (though the easier it is to make a scratch also). 5 micron (~1,500 grit) is about as far as anyone goes before making the leap to polishing out.

A good progression would be #220, #320, #500, then 15-micron or 12-micron, 8-micron, 5 micron, polish out.

But before I would go through all of the time, expense, and effort to do that, I would just replace the high temperature ceramic window.

lsayre wrote:
But before I would go through all of the time, expense, and effort to do that, I would just replace the high temperature ceramic window.

I suggested the kit for the headlights before, it's not that expensive and I'm sure if you went and just bought the components even in larger quantities it would be a lot cheaper. I think the kit I bought was $15 and there was enough material there to do about 4 or 5 sets of headlights... You get an attachment for a drill so it's quick job, probably about 30 to 40 minutes if you were doing the headlights. That's plastic though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=3m+headlight+kit+ ... l&tbm=shop

Thanx for the info guys--hell, I can feed 2 horses for a month for $15.00 & I can see them clear as Caribbean blue water:) Hell Larry, in my world you SURE can go from 220 to 2000--pix to come at some point.

Fred, if you don't know how to shut the flash off, try covering it with yer finger

Damn it Lee, I think we're onto something there! Didn't get to Cortland today. Got a sweet tile job though. 1000 sq--pretty straight runs till the kitchen & foyer way--if my old body can move tomorrow AM, I'll be back at it:)

After two years use, my stove glass was very hazy. So I took off the door this fall and laid it on a piece of newspaper. I could read nothing through the haze. Sanded lightly with 150 grit sandpaper until I could read all the small print, which didn't take long at all. Then I gave it several coats of Mother's California Gold liquid carnauba wax (see Wood'nCoal entry in topic Cleaning Glass/Stove ) and put the door back on the stove. Last week my wife said, "There's a big crack in the stove glass", and sure enough there was a curved crack from the top center and down a couple inches. Would that have anything to do with sanding it? Sheesh, it was fine two weeks ago.

Anyhow for $100 a local glass shop replaced the glass, and I waxed the new one too. Just have to wait now and see how long it takes to cloud up again, and whether the wax helps.

Anyhow for $100 a local glass shop replaced the glass, and I waxed the new one too. Just have to wait now and see how long it takes to cloud up again, and whether the wax helps.[/quote]

Once I learned how to run my Buderus 3115 hopper fed the glass would cleanup like day 1 for 20 plus years.
The Keystoker 90, maybe 20 hours I thought I would beat it, nope clean glass beat me