Cleaning Windows With Fine Steel Wool

Laminated windshield glass is higher on the mohs scale of hardness than steel wool.

Cleaning windows with fine steel wool.

Steel receives a lower rating of between 4 and 4 5. Steel wool for tough stains if you need to remove tree sap adhesive residue or other tenacious stains from your windows try 0000 4 ought steel wool. But lesser known superfine steel wool or grade 0000 steel wool has many useful applications. It sounds crazy but rubbing steel wool on your windshield won t hurt it.

Just like furniture makers use extra fine steel wool to rub out the surface of the wood after each coat of stain it polishes glass the same way. Steel wool removes the grime without scratching the glass. Start with the outside of the top pane then the inside of the top pane then the outside of the bottom pane and so on. Therefore steel wool in theory will not scratch glass.

Therefore these scrubbing pads in theory will not scratch glass either. Lubricate the glass with a spritz of window cleaner windex and buff away the stains with a wad of super fine steel wool. On the moh s scale glass receives a rating of 5 5. Continue until the entire window is clean.

Here are some of our favorites. Everybody we ve told about this little detailing trick seemed really surprised that steel wool does not scratch glass. Rub a piece of steel wool over the glass.