Hi all,
Situation- Brand new glass coffee table and two kids normally use to being outside housebound for two days. Well you can probably guess how that turned out by the following question.
Does anybody know of a product to repair or at least hide a rather deep scratch on toughened glass 
Cheers
Thanks decrepit, sometimes the simplest ideas escape thought. I did find on line some scratch repmoval products, but they might be more gimmicky then useful. Not too expensive, so if the scratch enoys me enough I will might give them a try.
Toph, I used to buff out scratches on toughened glass kitchen splashbacks after it does the rounds from glass company (where I semt my templates) - to tempering plant via truck, and another 350kms via truck to me. Tempered glass seems to scratch easier than float, but also fairly easy to buff out (depending on the depth of the scratch). My advice would be - go to a local glazier & ask them. They would be forever buffing out scratches due to poor handling, transport & apprentices just being careless.
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
Glass flows a little, so give it 400 years and it will not be so easily seen.
Actually it doesn't
but you could try tooth paste (or any other polishing compound) and soft polishing pad on a drill, It should help to hide some scratches.
Definitely works easy on softer materials like perplex.
Toughened glass does scratch easily because it is softened making it less brittle and more flex.
Tooth paste is indeed the best bet but a scratch is a scatch and it ain't goin no where.
Select to expand quoteToph said..
Does anybody know of a product to repair or at least hide a rather deep scratch on toughened glass
A whole bunch of deeper scratches crossing it in a random pattern then etched in with hydroflouraric acid.
Cool guys, thanks.
So here is the plan.....
I am going to put multiple deeper scratches perpendicular to the one already there until I stop being an anal retentive pr!ck and feel better about myself and remember kids will be kids. Then I'm going to cover it with tape until the kids are 18 when I will hand them a tube of toothpaste. They will waste the paste trying to cover their hickys (a trick that doesn't work) and I'll be forced to call a pro glass man to fix a table that will now be 13 years old 
That's why we come here. I can see the answer so clearly now
Select to expand quoteMacroscien said..Mark _australia said..
Glass flows a little, so give it 400 years and it will not be so easily seen.
Actually it doesn't
but you could try tooth paste (or any other polishing compound) and soft polishing pad on a drill, It should help to hide some scratches.
Definitely works easy on softer materials like perplex.
Actually it does 
Select to expand quoteToph said..
Cool guys, thanks.
So here is the plan.....
I am going to put multiple deeper scratches perpendicular to the one already there until I stop being an anal retentive pr!ck and feel better about myself and remember kids will be kids. Then I'm going to cover it with tape until the kids are 18 when I will hand them a tube of toothpaste. They will waste the paste trying to cover their hickys (a trick that doesn't work) and I'll be forced to call a pro glass man to fix a table that will now be 13 years old
That's why we come here. I can see the answer so clearly now
i can see it now, toothpaste is given to the kids,they get it all over the carpet.
now you have to get the scratches and the carpet fixed
^^ bugger. Should not believe science books when they debunked stuff.
anhwaaay, looks like he's back to toothpaste 
^^^ no I was still coming to terms with amorphous vs solid and thinking about gummy bears and Chico's
Oops cross out the latter, Milsy will think it racist.
TBH I had heard the glass flowing so many times from so many sources I thought it irrefutable. It is still in the science books etc. Bit like evolution I guess
Select to expand quoteboofy said..
My suggestion is duct tape the offspring until they turn 18
fixed it for you
stephen
Glass most certainly flows.
We removed the windows from our old farm house (built in 1967) to be reused in town.
The bottoms of these full length windows were 2 to 3mm thicker than the tops. We had to go a size up with the aluminium extrusion to hold them.
We refitted them up the other way up, so our grandkids can still use them at a later date.
They are fitted where they cant be accessed, so didn't require safety glass.
Didn't matter whether they had had more sunlight or direct sunlight they were all tapered.
Select to expand quoteChook2 said..
Glass most certainly flows.
We removed the windows from our old farm house (built in 1967) to be reused in town.
The bottoms of these full length windows were 2 to 3mm thicker than the tops. We had to go a size up with the aluminium extrusion to hold them.
We refitted them up the other way up, so our grandkids can still use them at a later date.
They are fitted where they cant be accessed, so didn't require safety glass.
Didn't matter whether they had had more sunlight or direct sunlight they were all tapered.
I think the suggestion is that older work techniques meant that the panes of glass would be thicker at one end of pane. So, they are mounted with the heavier side at the bottom.
Thanks guys for all the comments. It certainly opened up more of a debate then I thought a scratch would do
Buying a a new one may be harder then you'ld think Cobra. I bought the last of a discontinued line straight from the warehouse. I bought it because it was the closest thing I could find that matches the TV cabinet. I have a feeling that the cost of the glass would be nearly the cost of the whole thing.
Sandfoot, I don't think flipping it over would work. To stop the glass from moving around on the base, there are 'feet' recessed into the glass base.
Apparently glass scratches easier then I thought, and will likely be scratched some more (the perils of having young children apparently). After my initial hissy fit and rant here on SB, I've largely gotten over it 
Yeh I read that "Formula", but ours had a sag out from where they had been retained in the bottom of the old frames.
Unusual.
My wife said her granny used to wipe bees wax onto glass and polish it smooth, to not show any scratches.
Might be worth a try.
Give your kids a bit of discipline , ie a clip round the ear, they won't scratch a thing,
Select to expand quoteToph said..
Thanks guys for all the comments. It certainly opened up more of a debate then I thought a scratch would do
Buying a a new one may be harder then you'ld think Cobra. I bought the last of a discontinued line straight from the warehouse. I bought it because it was the closest thing I could find that matches the TV cabinet. I have a feeling that the cost of the glass would be nearly the cost of the whole thing.
Sandfoot, I don't think flipping it over would work. To stop the glass from moving around on the base, there are 'feet' recessed into the glass base.
Apparently glass scratches easier then I thought, and will likely be scratched some more (the perils of having young children apparently). After my initial hissy fit and rant here on SB, I've largely gotten over it
Not that I have done it but watched a glazier do some stuff once and he said it is piss easy.
Cutting is obviously score and snap. Using GOOD tools of course, so $20 scribe cutter, not the $5 Bunning "glass cutter" wheel thing...
Then bevel on edges can be done with a belt sander (perpendicular to edge) and glaziers just use a big linisher, same thing.
So thus DIY may be cost effective. Fin secondhand un-scratched glass, yoochoob all the requisite skills, cut to size and bevel away.
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..Toph said..
Thanks guys for all the comments. It certainly opened up more of a debate then I thought a scratch would do
Buying a a new one may be harder then you'ld think Cobra. I bought the last of a discontinued line straight from the warehouse. I bought it because it was the closest thing I could find that matches the TV cabinet. I have a feeling that the cost of the glass would be nearly the cost of the whole thing.
Sandfoot, I don't think flipping it over would work. To stop the glass from moving around on the base, there are 'feet' recessed into the glass base.
Apparently glass scratches easier then I thought, and will likely be scratched some more (the perils of having young children apparently). After my initial hissy fit and rant here on SB, I've largely gotten over it
Not that I have done it but watched a glazier do some stuff once and he said it is piss easy.
Cutting is obviously score and snap. Using GOOD tools of course, so $20 scribe cutter, not the $5 Bunning "glass cutter" wheel thing...
Then bevel on edges can be done with a belt sander (perpendicular to edge) and glaziers just use a big linisher, same thing.
So thus DIY may be cost effective. Fin secondhand un-scratched glass, yoochoob all the requisite skills, cut to size and bevel away.
If its toughened glass I don't think its possible. On 'the block' or 'house rules' or something like that, they had a toughened glass dining table and they wanted to cut it down. They couldn't. Its supposed to be tempered after it is cut to size.
Being a modern table, it probably is toughened glass.
