WARNING - dont do this to your screen.

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Discussion Starter · May 1, 2009

I was fabricating some mirror block-off plates when i must have got a small drop off Epoxy Resin on the screen.

Ive uses Acetone before on the paintwork to remove glue from decals and resins, but when i tried it on the screen it ate through the plastic straight away.

Their is a Smoked Double Bouble waiting for me at the local bike shop

ACETONE + SCREENS = :th_down:

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Strand

· #2 · May 1, 2009

LOL

Justin1000RR

· #3 · May 1, 2009

:WTF: wow, that's pretty harsh.

Brooklyn Bully

· #4 · May 1, 2009

Noted...

4BillionDollarMan

· #5 · May 1, 2009

live & learn ... this was a cheap lesson

gqnugget

· #6 · May 1, 2009

LOL, do the same thing with the acetone right before a race, picked up the wrong towel.

TexasCBR1000RR

· #7 · May 1, 2009

dayum that sux!! good excuse to have to get a new screen thou!!!

LosPer

· #8 · May 1, 2009

Good to know. Thanks.

crf69

· #9 · May 1, 2009

i'm not gonna lie......i did this before.......on my ol 954

Strand

· #10 · May 1, 2009

I was just taking some stickers off my bike the other night with acetone. Glad there were none on my screen.

philip1000rr

· #11 · May 1, 2009

If you really wanted you could fix that with some real fine wet sanding and scratch-x. I had a windscreen that was painted on the inside a while ago. I used acetone to strip the paint and it left the screen etched like that. It took me an hour of sanding and buffing with scratch-x while watching TV to get it looking new again.

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Discussion Starter · #12 · May 2, 2009

philip.maher said:
If you really wanted you could fix that with some real fine wet sanding and scratch-x. I had a windscreen that was painted on the inside a while ago. I used acetone to strip the paint and it left the screen etched like that. It took me an hour of sanding and buffing with scratch-x while watching TV to get it looking new again.

I didnt think buffing would work?, but i do know you cant buff out scratches from a helmet visor because they are layered.

Well it seems like some of you have made this mistake before, so im glad it wasnt just me being thick. But to those who havent made this mistake, i hope ive saved you from having this happen to you.

Jackalo626

· #13 · May 3, 2009

Good reason to get a new double bubble. Everything happens for a reason.

beefy71

· #14 · May 3, 2009

:OMG:

EddieLima

· #15 · May 3, 2009

That happened to my friend as well.

Mani

· #16 · May 3, 2009

Toothpaste and buffing wheel followed by plastic polish should take that right out.

Jet City Racer

· #17 · May 7, 2009

A picture says 1,000 words.....................

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honda 1

· #18 · May 7, 2009

SUX!

Lonewolf0346

· #19 · May 7, 2009

Noted

sooperman12

· #20 · May 7, 2009

Why does anyone have acetone near anything on their bike? That stuff eats through plastic. It IS an organic solvent. And screens are very tempermental. You just have to breathe on it and it gets swirly scratches.

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