Cleaning

[HRife]

What is the best way to clean old bottles? Can you get the hazy, cloudiness off the glass? What do you use?

Thanks
Harold

[Boaz]

not try to anything but we ask around

[Scruch]

Try using the same product as you would use to clear plastic headlight lenses.
Be sure to get one with the finest abrasive possible, and polish it up with the rest of the kit.

[Scruch]

I guess nobody cares about bottles anymore. Too bad!

[CoinHunter]

Never have tried to clean a glass bottle before, but I have polished out glass using polishing compound and rubbing compound and followed this up by buffing with a buffer. I tried the lens polishing kit on a plastic headlight once and stopped quickly. It had me to use some really fine grit sandpaper and that was a serious mistake. It distorted the lens and left permanent scratches in it. I have tried using both steel wool and 2000 grit on glass lenses but nothing comes close to using plain old rubbing/polishing compound and buffing the heck out of it. I  bought a small polishing bonnet from the tool store and using an extension I purchased for extending the reach of a drill bit I was able to polish the inside of glass headlights also. If anyone decides that their plastic headlights need cleaning then I recommend using the buffing compound, follow that with some polishing compound, wash it real good dry and buff it like crazy. If they are still yellowish or hazy looking do it again. Once you get them back to a point that you will accept then use some of the clear Future floor wax on them. If you do this every so often when you wash your car you can prevent them from hazing over again. One word of caution here though is to make sure you don't just keep adding coats of the polish. It will turn yellow in the sun after awhile if you don't clean it off and re-apply a couple times a year. Trust me I have learned my lesson. After shelling out large amounts of cash for replacement headlights that did the same thing as the factory ones I learned how to prevent the problem.

[Scruch]

I agree completely with your experience Ralph, as I too purchased a ''kit'' with all of the step down abrasives. They stink! I found lens ''compounds in a bottle'' that work great, with minimal effort. It takes research. Auto Zone has a great selection! All based on one's skill level, or maybe ''trust'' level..

[Scruch]

Had to do my headlights again a few months ago, and after doing this for years, I finally hit the answer. After cleaning, by what ever method, PASTE WAX the lenses! The cure to Oxidized plastic is surface protection! Don't use a liquid or spray/pump type wax, use the real stuff... canned wax.  It will save you a lot of work!