Plexi-glass?

[sjh]

Hi all
Have enjoyed reading the forum over the past weeks and thought it was time to join in.
I'm buying another boat and have been told the windscreen is made of plexi-glass!!! Is this a resin based material? I would like to fit windscreen wipers for those not so perfect days, but am unsure whether windscreen wipers would scratch the plexi-glass.
Has anyone had any experience with plexi-glass?

 

[tr7v8]

Also known as Perspex etc. It scratches like hell with wipers, might be OK short term but long term you'll either need to change to glass or one of the surface hardened acylics which now exist.

Jim
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[oldsaltoz]

G’day Steve,
Welcome to the YBW forum.
Wipers will scratch, however there are a number of products available to coat it with that shed water and salt. If all else fails, next time you polish the car, take the cloth you used to wipe the polish off and run it over the windscreen, it will repel water.

Avagoodweekend Old Salt Oz……

 

[RayB]

Get some "Rainex" from Halfords, rub it on the outside of the screen every couple of weeks and the rain/spray will just run off, you'll never ever need wipers with this stuff. A commercial fisherman locally started using it and found it so good he didn't even fit wipers to his new boat!
Halfords also do a sister product, forget its name, which is applied to the inside of the screen and stops it misting up!

Brilliant stuff!!

"Hopefully that won't be too expensive to fix?"

 

[ccscott49]

Rain-X is wonderful stuff, just as an aside, if it's a little scratched already, it can be polished like new with, Brasso, the liquid stuff, not the poofter wadding. Brings it up a treat, we used to use it and Goddards on the old Sioux helicopter canopies.

 

[sjh]

Thanks for your help, I've had rainx in my garage for several years but have never used it, hope it doesn't go off!!