How to Remove Scratches From Helmet Visor at Home

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The scratches on your helmet visor will put you at risk by reducing the visibility, as you’ll not be able to see clearly through a scratched and rough visor.

Hence, you should remove these scratches and enjoy a clear vision. If you are going for a DIY method, you must be very careful. Because you can deteriorate the integrity of your helmet visor by using the incorrect methods.

To make things easier, I will tell you in this article how to remove scratches from helmet visor at home.

Things you’ll need

320-grit sandpaper
2000-grit sandpaper
Scratch and swirl remover
Drill machine
Old buffing wheel
Water
Paper towel

Step 1 (320-Grit Sandpaper)

First of all, remove the visor from the helmet. (Learn how to remove helmet visor)
Then take a piece of 320-grit sandpaper, and wet sand the area of the visor where you have a scratch.
Wet the sandpaper often by dipping it in water, otherwise, it will leave the visor very cloudy and distorted.
Keep sanding until we get the visor as smooth as we can get it with 320-grit sandpaper.
Sand it in a circular motion until you are not feeling any scratches by running your thumbnail on the shield, and you can’t visibly see any scratches.
You’ll see a bunch of little itsy-Betsy scratches that are from the 320-grit sandpaper itself. Which is fine, and we’ll take them out.
This step may take fifteen minutes. At the end of this step, you’ll have a smooth and cloudy visor.

Step 2 (2000-Grit Sandpaper)

Now switch over to 2000-grit sandpaper, and we’ll do the same thing one more time.
Sand it in a circular motion until the cloudiness starts to clear up.
When everything looks exactly uniform and the surface of the visor starts to smooth out, then you are done with the sanding process.

Also Read: How to clean helmet liners

Step 3 (Scratch And Swirl Remover)

Now take some scratch and swirl remover on a cloth and rub it in a circular motion on the visor to get the luster. You can do this process by hand, but you won’t get that high luster and it will be a time-consuming process.
To save some time and labor, use an old buffing wheel and a drill machine. Fix the buffing wheel on the drill, and put some polish directly on the visor.
Turn on the drill machine and start rubbing the polish on the visor with the buffing wheel.
Continue the process for some minutes, then get a paper towel and wipe the excess polish off.
Repeat it two to three times until you get a clear and shiny visor without any scratches on it.

Conclusion

This process is very easy and money-saving. You can remove the scratches from your helmet visor easily at home with this inexpensive stuff.

You’ll not have to buy a new visor if you have got a scratch on your shield, thus, it will save you money.

Hope this article will help you to get a clear scratch-free visor at home.

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