Water stain that won't go away....

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pdbrady

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Long story short.....I bought a used 220, turns out it had a leak under the front trim. The moron (another long story) I bought it from apparently never cleaned the drippy water from the front glass so I have a water stain on the outside of the front glass, top to bottom, that WILL NOT go away. I've tried everything.....vinegar, clr, vinegar/salt paste, wienmans (or something like that) glass stove top cleaner, kaboom, magic eraser......I don't remember everything else. Nothing budges this stain. I NEED HELP! This thing is about to drive me to throw a brick through it.......to tip the iceberg, there's a huge stain on the back where the guy let water get between the glass and background, guess what, he let it sit.
 
hmmm i use something known as sea salt here, available at the lfs, helps me remove water stains with great ease
 
yeah for really stuff water stains i always had to use something with an EDGE... but is it acrylic or glass?? cuz most edges will scratch acrylic then you'd be out of the frying into the fire so to speak
 
MEK (methyl-ethyl keytone) is a VERY HARD chemical that destroys most everything, i use it on only the HARDEST TOUGHEST stains EVER!!!! use with caution.... and only on the glass... it would probably disintegrate acrylic haha
 
Sorry, a razor blade was something I forgot to mention in my original post that I had already used. I used it with the vinegar and clr (which as said, I already tried). And yes it's a glass tank. I used everything from paper towel to rags to sponges to scrubbing pads. I'm at a loss...........
 
did you ever find a solution to this?. i just noticed the same shizzy deal on new tank I set up.
I tried every chemical I can find its strange stain when its wet it dissapears soon as evaporates its there again. considering waxing the glass /shrug wish this was visible when I pickd the darn tank up.
 
Did you try lime away? it is made specifically for water marks on salt tanks with all the calcium build ups on them
 
found this on another forum. gonna give it a try (yes i tried lime away clr everything) this below makes total sense so gonna give it a go ill let ya all know.

Greetings fellow fish keepers I have good news that merits a new thread. Some of you who have been following my post know I have been having issues trying to eliminate mineral deposits, hard water lines, and hard water haze. You also know that I have tried almost everything with very limited results from vinegar to CLR, acids, even snake oil products that amounted to nothing more then corn starch and ammonia, all of those products the result of limited research. After conducting a much more thorough research I discovered (long story short) that glass has a harness on the scale of 1-9 9 being diamonds glass is 6 and requires a mineral based abrasive preferably in the form of a liquid for uniformity. Jewelers use expensive compounds that cost about $10 a stick.

I found a few folks that have used automobile heavy duty rubbing compound which contains powerful abrasives to remove layers of paint. and although the abrasives in the paste are powerful there hardness is way below 6 hardness so glass is buffed rather then scratched.

So I went out and bought a 10oz can Turtle Wax "Heavy Duty Rubbing Compound" (not regular) for $3 and took a rolled up clean cotton sock wet with purified water (important). and with a dab of compound started cleaning a small test section of my haze inside aquarium glass in strait linear motions not circles just for about 20 good strokes and after a wipe down with a clean paper towel damp with distilled water and blow dry to see if there was any change, YAHOO! My glass had a clean clear bright area where I had rubbed, surrounded by haze waiting to be removed.

It even cleaned the badly etched top pane of glass covers however because that glass was etched by mineral deposits once clean you could actually see the layers of glass that were missing sort of like how melted wax looks in flat melted layers after its hardened, only in this case it clear again.

This heavy duty rubbing compound has no smelly or irritating chemicals to gas you out only a water based paste wax with powerful abrasives designed to remove layers paint fast does not scratch the glass because of its low hardness.
 
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