Dirty glass cleaning tip

[MnSue]

Filthy/Dirty glass? Quick cleaning is achieved by spraying a bit of your favorite glass cleaner onto a Mr Clean (or equivalent) magic eraser - and lightly "scrub"! Clean with fresh cloth after you've scrubbed away the grime - best if re-wiped/cleaned before the moisture dries.

Easy Peasy! (does not effect the uv coatings...)

 

[Rick Granick]

I'm surprised a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser wouldn't affect the UV or other coatings, as it is an abrasive.
Rick

 

[Prospero]

I recently cleaned a old piece of rippled glass using fine steel wool and Zippo fluid.
The steel wool doesn't scratch the glass. This will remove the stubborn dirt and a
follow-up with conventional glass cleaner will bring back the sparkle.
Reusing glass like this is preferable to replacement on the right job. The flaws keep
the 'period' look and after thorough cleaning it's actually clearer than modern standard float.

 

[Shayla]

I'm surprised a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser wouldn't affect the UV or other coatings, as it is an abrasive.
Rick

Same, here. Magic Eraser is very fine sandpaper.

 

[Romanf]

The regular eraser is made to clean glass like in the shower. So it will not scratch glass on its own. The extra durable eraser is not designed for glass and it can scratch. They are designed to be used wet.

The equivalent grit size is something like 5000 grit so unless you really put a lot of pressure on it, or don’t use something abrasive with it, you should be fine.

I don’t think I would try it on acrylic though.

 

[Rick Granick]

I wouldn't worry about using one on uncoated glass. It's the fragile coatings I would be concerned about, using any kind of abrasive.
Honestly, if someone is having something reframed or repaired and the glass is filthy, I just figure in the cost of a new piece of glass. Cleaning old glass can be a nasty job, especially if it is coated with tar and nicotine from being in a smoky environment, or has insect frass or cat pee all over it.
Rick
(Hope you weren't eating lunch while reading this.)

 

[Larry Peterson]

And just think of all the microplastics your magic eraser is releasing into the wild. I know that and being a bad boy ( or decrepit old man ), still use my magic eraser.

 

[Romanf]

I wouldn't worry about using one on uncoated glass. It's the fragile coatings I would be concerned about, using any kind of abrasive.
Honestly, if someone is having something reframed or repaired and the glass is filthy, I just figure in the cost of a new piece of glass. Cleaning old glass can be a nasty job, especially if it is coated with tar and nicotine from being in a smoky environment, or has insect frass or cat pee all over it.
Rick
(Hope you weren't eating lunch while reading this.)

So the cat pee is from the floor mounted frames?

 

[glamorsidhe]

I wouldn't worry about using one on uncoated glass. It's the fragile coatings I would be concerned about, using any kind of abrasive.
Honestly, if someone is having something reframed or repaired and the glass is filthy, I just figure in the cost of a new piece of glass. Cleaning old glass can be a nasty job, especially if it is coated with tar and nicotine from being in a smoky environment, or has insect frass or cat pee all over it.
Rick
(Hope you weren't eating lunch while reading this.)

Rick, when you said "[c]leaning old glass . . . coated with tar & nicotine from being in a smoky environment, or [glass with] insect frass or cat pee", I was reminded of the periodic "joy" of cleaning an auto's interior windshield of the former (necessary even if you personally don't smoke!) & the exterior of same of the latter (which also includes our feathered friends' pee & poo bomb-droppings) --- even after "finishing-wiping" the interior windshield with a decent microfiber cloth, some sunlite-revealed visual-streaking effects inevitably remain (unless the cleaning is very intensively done, timewise). As you said, "a nasty job" indeed.

 

[Jleschak]

Filthy/Dirty glass? Quick cleaning is achieved by spraying a bit of your favorite glass cleaner onto a Mr Clean (or equivalent) magic eraser - and lightly "scrub"! Clean with fresh cloth after you've scrubbed away the grime - best if re-wiped/cleaned before the moisture dries.

Easy Peasy! (does not effect the uv coatings...)

OMG, just got the Magic Eraser s in….it is gold…Gold Jerry! Gold! I dont use it on UV glass, but i have some cheap artists that refuse to get new glass and look for cheapest options, so give them my throwaways with a small cutting fee. The magic eraser works SO FAST to clean the glass, what would take me 10 or 15 minutes is a minute or two at most, and pristine shine. Honestly, people can probably find something against it (or anything else for that matter), but proof is in the job it does.