Problem restoring headlights - Any advice.

I bought some headlights from the junkyard in hopes of BHLM and refinishing the lens.

Everything is going well until I sand down the lenses, and now they have all these tiny sand marks. They are not clear lenses any more, they are kinda cloudy and look like they have a film over them.

I was using a hand restoration kit. but the polish step ain't worth a shit. Now the lense I was trying to fix looks worse than the one I'm about to do.

Any thoughts? maybe get a different compound?

Sucks cause my BHLM will be complete but the lenses aren't crystal clear.

 

thanks bud,

 

+1 on the power buffer. Doing it by hand just sucks!

 

The ones by hand aren't as powerful, timely, or even. Go buy the 3M kit.

 

thanks for the advice guys, I just put the headlights back together last night. I'm waiting for the Window weld to dry. They look sweet but will look %100 after I get the leses restored.

I posted this thread in another section and a fella from Austin offered to help me buff them out. I called him and we are meeting up on Sunday

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/138385-problem-restoring-headlights-any-advice.html

His handle is 06TEXED so if you see him, hook him up with some rep for being such a bad ass and giving me a hand.

 

And thanks for your BHLM write up btw. I'll make sure and put up the pics after I'm all finished.

 

Thanks again to 06TEXED for the buffer help. They came out like new!

 

Very nice work!