Plastic polish!

[Blackwolf]

When I binned my T, the clear plasctic cover piece on the clocks got scratched. wondering what i can use (if possible) to polish out the scratches?

T-cut?


Cheers!

BW
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[Dazbo666]

Try a search for "Xerapol" and/or "Plexus"

I've not used it myself, but heard good things about Xerapol

edit : Xerapol website

...or "lmgtfy"
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https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=8113


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[DrDonnyBrago]

I polished out some deep scuffs on the corner of my screen after a lowside.

I went at it with finer and finer grades of sandpaper, from about 200 grit all the way down to 1500 grit wet and dry, makes it very smooth but hazy. To get rid of the haze I used autosol metal polish, then used T cut, then finally conventional car polish. It is as smooth as the rest of the screen. I did the other side to match, you wouldn't be able to tell it had been scuffed up.

All done by hand with rags etc, would have been quicker with a dremel polishing head or similar but I couldn't be arsed to push my bike near to a plug socket.

[Walloper]

The problem with scratches is that you need to remove loads of surrounding material to get the scratch out.
In other words you do not polish out the scratch but polish out all the material around it.

Xerapol works but takes for ever as it is a very very fine polish. Maybe even almost optical grade.

I would use Rubbing Compound then T Cut then Xerapol.
Test on a bit of similar plastic for effects.
Some compounds are soaked up by certain plastics especially when you raise the temperature so you could stain or cloud the lens you are trying to fix.
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[Blackwolf]

I may just get some more acrylic/perspex and make anoter one to glue in..
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[funmonkee]

I was going to say put a sticker over it!

I'd try T-cut first Halfords usually have a shed load of scratch removing products. But try T-cut first... Asda were doing a sale on it recently for £1 a tube And get some of the soft dusters at the same time
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[FirebladeRuss]

Any mild cutting compound for car paintwork will be fine.
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