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Cleaning the visor without scratching it
Yesterday at 16:29:47
 
What do you use?
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Re: Cleaning the visor without scratching it
Reply #1 - Yesterday at 17:17:56
 
I buy spray specifically for visors at the motorcycle shop.  I use a cheap micro fiber towel that is not absorbent (cheap ones from Dollar General), and after spraying and letting the cleaner soften up the bug goo a bit........the cheap towel smears the cleaner around without soaking any of it up.  I then use a better quality micro fiber towel that will soak up the cleaner and dry it off.  I wrap the cheap towel around the bottle and then the better towel around it and store it in the saddle bag.

In the old days we used Lemon Pledge on airplane windshields.  It works OK - but there is a lot of wax that needs to be wiped off and the towels need to be washed more often.

Plexus is similar to Lemon Pledge without as much wax - but it is a bit expensive for what it is.

Bug Slide is good.

Just about any motorcycle dealer will have an affordable spray cleaner.  I prefer the thin liquid cleaners to the thick waxy ones.

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Reply #2 - Yesterday at 17:21:43
 
Arright,, thanks.
What about using SprayWay, ammonia free?
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Reply #3 - Today at 02:36:14
 
JOG wrote on Yesterday at 17:21:43:
Arright,, thanks.
What about using SprayWay, ammonia free?


I don't know...never tried.

The visor cleaners are thicker than glass cleaner, and most likely lubricate the dust/dirt more while it is being removed.  I would think the thin glass cleaner might allow the dirt/dust to scratch as you wipe it off.  Also the glass cleaner dries quickly and may not soften the bug guts......most visor cleaners want you to leave the spray on for a minute to soften the goo before wiping.

Also.....I only rub in straight lines (across on the helmet visor and up/down on my windshield) - no roundy-round wiping.
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Reply #4 - Today at 04:18:20
 
When I was in Army flight school/officer training, we had concrete floors in our barracks and when we polished & buffed the floors we used lemon Pledge on the final buff…it made the floor reflect like a mirror, you could see your face in it.  But there was one problem with it, it made the floor very slippery, and on one inspection the Regimental XO slipped and fell.
Ooooops.  Lemon Pledge was banned after that.
But the floor did SHINE.
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Re: Cleaning the visor without scratching it
Reply #5 - Today at 05:11:57
 
Okay,, got it.
No
Wax on
Wax off
Roundy round stuff.
A heavier cleaner, not watery thin, to get the crud up and off the visor.
The ride home yesterday saw A few little guys splatter, I'll pick up some cleaner today. I have several little rags from glasses I've had. Need to wash them.
I gotta get a windshield.. 75 & 80 mph ,because traffic was running that way for a while, it's stay with The flow or don't,, and the wind was gusting, YaKnow it's working hard when the mpg drops below 40..
And I see guys with no helmet.. Sheesh.
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Re: Cleaning the visor without scratching it
Reply #6 - Today at 06:16:36
 
JOG wrote on Today at 05:11:57:
And I see guys with no helmet.. Sheesh.


I have been hit by bugs (likely Beetles) that make a huge "crack" noise when they hit my helmet or visor, and I always wonder how badly that would hurt if I didn't have a helmet and visor protecting my face/head!

When riding with others who have helmet radios - you can hear the bug when it hits the other fellows helmet.

One time on the Cherohala Skyway I hit a butterfly right in the center of my visor...........Did you know that butterflies are filled with butter? Huh  I stopped at the river on the Tellico Plains side of the mountain and soaked my visor so I could get my view of the world back.
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