Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Is it possible to remove scratches from glass?
Light scratches in glass can be removed by buffing with toothpaste. Use normal toothpaste, and not \"gel\" types, which contain coarser grit. Apply toothpaste to the scratch, remove excess with a razor blade, let dry, then buff with a cloth
otherwise contact glazier they usually use something professinal that can buff it out
aslong as it is not to deep you should be able to get it out
You know yourself
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I don't think the scratch is so deep that you'd catch your fingernail in it. The cause seems to be a cleaning tool that has a metal blade on it for removing Algae. It works fine on a straight and flat edged tank, but on the rounded inside of the Trigon it scratched the glass.
However, I just had a search on the net as well and just found this:
www.fitchfamily.com/glass.html
Now then it looks like it will be possible to repair this even if it takes alot of effort and elbow grease as they say.
I suppose the question is now:
1) Have any of you ever tried this before and any tips?
2) If there was a Glazer that someone could recommend for this - it would be more reassuring than an Oaf like me trying this and possibly cracking the glass or making the whole thing worse
...Thanks a million again<br><br>Post edited by: Chief Robert, at: 2007/07/24 00:20
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I emptied the water levels down to just under the scratch mark (on the inside of the tank)
I wiped away any dirt and dried the inside of the tank
I applied a liberal smear of \"Arm and Hammer\" Whitening toothpaste over the scratches, wiped away the excess, and let it dry.
I then buffed and buffed the hell out of the scratch.
No progress whatsoever
(except for the workout which I needed)
I was actually getting a bit concerned about the shaking I was giving the tank while buffing. I was afraid I might break a seal somewhere so I was trying to hold it steady with one hand while I buffed with the other.
I have 2 options now in terms of repairing the scratch apparently.
1) Use Cutting Compound (as is used to get scratches out of car paint)
2) Jewellers Paste, which is another form of cutting compound.
Whether either will be successful I don't know.
I could also increase the power in the buffing by using a drill - but the risk there is that I buff a much larger areas and potentially smear the tank, making it worse than the scratch that is already there.
So I will leave it off a few more days and speak to a few more resident experts.
Any more suggestions on here more than welcome!!!
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But here goes anyway. I had a pair of Rayban sunglasses 
once upon a time my then Girlfriend bought me. However, from all the use they got they got scratched very badly . While working on a Building in city centre I came across a guy wo worked part time for a spectical company one of the large ones and he took the glasses and polished the scratches out , they were like new. Maybe someone like this might be able to help. Even if you were to find out what they used. The best of luck mate.Paul.
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I remember my Dad telling me about removing scratches from car windscreens with a product called Jewellers Rouge.
Have a look here...
www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient...elers+rouge+on+glass
and if it works light a candle for my Dad!
Paul
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