Will flame polishing take scratches out of the clear portion of the dmd panel cover. My IJ looks fine on all the parts with graphics but the center has a few scratches, I doubt novus will get them out. Hate to have to buy a repro just for that
Quoted from Pablito350:It just seems that it's too thin for flame polishing.
Yup. At least that's what I found. I could get the scratches out but I ended up with a rippled finish.
Use some maguiers heavy cut polishing compound on it. Then the medium cut. Then the fine cut. That's what I do. Looks brand new.
If you have an aversion for elbow grease, get yourself a pack of polishing pads to attach to a drill from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Buffing-Polishing-Pads-Headlight-Restoration/dp/B0B8649J5K/ref=sr_1_2_sspa
Quoted from Gotpins:If you have an aversion for elbow grease, get yourself a pack of polishing pads to attach to a drill from Amazon.
amazon.com link »
Elbow grease is probably preferable thanks
Quoted from Gotpins:Use some maguiers heavy cut polishing compound on it. Then the medium cut. Then the fine cut. That's what I do. Looks brand new.
That stuff works better than novus I assume
Quoted from mmr61184:That stuff works better than novus I assume
McGuiers…I’ve used it to take scratches out of my panel covers. Works great with low speed polisher. Advance auto has car polishers. Great part is I paint correct my cars after working on pins! Win-win!
Quoted from mmr61184:That stuff works better than novus I assume
Novus has it's place somewhere, but after using regularly available compounds for so long I haven't found it.
As Underlord said above... Get a polisher people. Save tons of time, and your joints!
-Paul
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