If your boat has Beckson ports, or any ports which feature polycarbonate (Lexan) lenses, then if those ports are more than a couple years old, they are turning brown and hazy. Lexan does not do well with UV exposure, but it is used for port light applications because it is easy to injection mold.
For years, I have been removing the affected port lenses (That’s what Beckson calls the transparent part) and laboriously rubbing them out with Meguires compounds (#17 and #10). It helped, but it was a losing battle – the brown coloration was going deeper and deeper into the outside surface of the lenses.
Well, it turns out that that auto manufacturers like that easy injection molding too, and so on all modern cars, those clear headlight covers are also Lexan. And they too turn brown and hazy. Now, a product to address boat ports is a lot less likely than one aimed at auto owners trying to refurbish their headlights, and, no surprise, several companies have met that need.
Read the full post on Windborne in Puget Sound.
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