eraser as designated glass cleaner?

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Just used some eraser to prep surface before applying sealant. Loved it!

But product is too good to sit on shelf until
next polish.

Is anyone using eraser as their go-to glass cleaner and also if you use it for glass, is it tint safe or only safe when using on external glass?
 
I have been using it on glass for quite awhile. Being that I am a part time guy and don't do this everyday I am really not using all that much of it. However if you are doing this everyday it would be far to expensive to use as a glass cleaner. I does work awesome for cleaning glass though, leaving it spotless with one application.
 
I have. Worked just fine. Cost effective? I haven't done the math. I used in on the interior of the windshield too. I can't take credit for it, Old Tiger, Jim gave me the idea.

On edit**** Kevin posted about a minute before me so the cost thing was answered...LOL!
 
Yea I am just a weekend warrior so one bottle will easily last me a year. Was just curious how it performed on glass when used as a dedicated cleaner
 
Maybe buy a cheap spray bottle and cut it to try an experiment.
 
Hi all,
I just asked sort of a similar question over on the AGO Forum, and it mostly pertained to the best prep methods to getting clean glass prior to coating the glass with basically any Rain Repellant Products made on the market today.

OK, then let me ask this question? If Eraser is good for cleaning (which I have, and have used such for glass in the past), then what about purer alcohols, such as 70% and 91% IPA's? Would these be even better as glass prep products before applying any sort of Glass Coating?

If not then what would you folks say would be the "best bang, and produce the best results for cleanliness"?

Yes, I understand that one at times has to resort to Claying Glass, that bonded contaminants can be a bear to sometimes get off but what then?

Let's say I want to apply a new Coating, Forte, Fly by 30, Aquapel, etc?
Thanks, Mark
 
While I haven't really used IPA for cleaning glass, I am sure it would work just fine. As for Eraser cleaning the glass before coating, I am pretty sure that Eraser comes in the FlyBy30 and Forte kits when you order them and is to be used as the last cleaning before coating. Not sure if this answered your question Mark.
 
KMG said:
While I haven't really used IPA for cleaning glass, I am sure it would work just fine. As for Eraser cleaning the glass before coating, I am pretty sure that Eraser comes in the FlyBy30 and Forte kits when you order them and is to be used as the last cleaning before coating. Not sure if this answered your question Mark.
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Perhaps I could say both yes, and no. LOL

Although that seems like a good sign to me, I know Corey has once elaborated a bit about Carpro Eraser, and stated that it was designed basically to remove polishing oils after a polishing process has been done to paint, to remove oils from the products, but further stated that it was not designed to remove durable waxes and sealants.

So, with that being said, I am unsure with glass due to its nature just how well do such waxes-sealants and other coatings bond, and how hard are they to actually remove?

I would imagine in a high percentage of cases, that there may be nothing that would actually remove all prior products used, short of using perhaps a very harsh and dangerous chemical such as Acetone, which is an excellent glass cleaner, but extremely risky to use around Plastics, and Paint.

I know one Optician, and Telescope Manufacturer by the name of Roland Christen of Astro-Physics Telescopes, they make some of, if not the finest Refractor Lens Telescopes in the world, you'll be on a lengthy and long waiting list to get one. (I own one of their 4" Refractors called the Traveler)

I remember Roland once saying about chemicals such as Silicone, that to get Silicones on Glass Surfaces, nothing will remove it short of re-grinding, and re-figuring a Lens.

I then wonder how many products we may use upon glass surfaces that contain Silicones? Or, the contamination of the glass surface by waxes, or sealants used on paint that will over time find their way onto the Glass?
Mark
 
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Of course, I'm sure windshields, and vehicle glass isn't as critical, nor needed to be as perfect in cleanliness and smoothness as a fine Telescope Optic.

Nothing's perfect in the detail world, but for sure, and with such glass coatings, just as with paint coatings, it seems there's a percentage of variability, and a lack of end user success comes from a number of issues, one being proper prep.

Others are of course the application, temps, methods.
 
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