Buffing Lenses

[KillerCollector]

Anyone ever tried buffing out lenses with a mirror coating? I wouldn't even care if the mirror coating came off. Anyone try to rescue something this bad?

 

[qtrain23]

lol yea. you can rescue it right to the trashcan

Theres really no fix.

 

[KillerCollector]

 

[kronin323]

Agree with Q. There's another thread discussing restoring damaged lenses here:

Giving New Life To A Old Lens | Oakley Forum

But in a nutshell, no - a plastic polish might remove the iridium but it will distort the lens. The thread discusses soaking in alcohol, but that doesn't work on iridium. And it got mixed results with the non-reflective coating on non-iridium lenses.

So they're trash.