My 5m - 5.6m Loft Blades have travelled approx 10,000km(in the trailer) in the past year and half, in this time the sails developed fine scratch marks over the window monofilm from all the bouncing around while travelling.
The good news is that you can remove 90% of the scratches!
What you need is a drill and buff, Kitten cut and polish and some Vuplex.
Steps
1. lay a blanket on the ground to protect your sail from further scratches
2. apply a small amount of kitten cut and polish on the areas you need to clean up
3. with the drill and buff, buff the area until all the polish and scratches have gone
4. repeat on all areas that need cleaning up
5. once completed spray on some Vuplex spray and hand buff off the residue
and that's it the sails will come up looking like new, if the scratches are deep you wont get them out but they will virtually dissapear and wont look as ugly.
I also had a harness hook dent in my new 6.3
using an iron i placed a tea towel between the sail and iron and simply held it over the spot for approx 30 seconds at a time and the dent came out there's only a small crease mark now
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scratches in monofilm
drill with buff
Kitten cut & polish
Vuplex spray
Sail looks like new
awesome man, my brother brought a new sail a few months ago and has a few hook dints allready. i will let me him know about ya ideas on how to get them out.
the vuplex also works as a water repellent similar to rainex.The water beads off the sails for the first few sail after its applied
RE: Removing hook dents with an iron. What can go wrong? How hot an iron did you use? Just be careful, use common sense?
The buffer normally leaves a lot of half dried polish everywhere - did you get all that pinkish-cream coloured powder on the batten pockets etc?
) but all you do is check it after 10 or so seconds to be safe(remember to use a tea towel and dont put it directly onto the mono film), does'nt take long for the dent to come out.
Reality bites: I am never gunna a buy an 'as new' sail again - I'll bet its done 10,000 kms.
I think I'll just switch off now.
