dust cover polish?

RE: dust cover polish?, posted on July 4, 2015 at 14:04:00
Steelhead Mike Audiophile Posts: 104 Location: New England Joined: September 2, 2000	If you're seeking to remove scratches, Novus is the way to go, M

Here is a link, posted on July 4, 2015 at 14:06:21

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Novis plastic polish.

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I've used Seapower boat polish to refinish foggy platsic on..., posted on July 4, 2015 at 14:10:03

DeKay

vintage plastic souvenir snowdomes (also used it to restore the rear turning signal light gels on my old Citroen).

Their current version has "poly" in the name (for use on fiberglass boat hulls).

I simply polished by hand with 100% cotten T-shirt material and then finished up by washing the domes/gels with Dawn dish soap and warm water.

The guy that turned me onto it used a dremel with various polishing wheels, but I found a little (very little) elbow grease applied to a clean T-Shirt rag worked just fine.

You might also look into Griot's plastic polish, which has a good rep.

thanks guys, posted on July 4, 2015 at 14:18:48
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Headlight plastic lens restorer, posted on July 4, 2015 at 15:39:15
Cuernavaca Audiophile Posts: 878 Location: NW Joined: December 23, 2011	I have tried Novus, works okay. I recently polished the headlight lenses on my car with a Turtlewax product, works very good, I would not hesitate to try it on a dustcover. TR "I've never owned a firearm, but I do have an attack parrot!"

+1 on the Novus. Works great. /nt\, posted on July 5, 2015 at 05:43:49
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RE: dust cover polish?, posted on July 5, 2015 at 06:59:31
throwback Audiophile Posts: 762 Location: Colorado Joined: December 8, 2003	The real solution is not to let your dust cover get all smudgy and yucky in the first place. Mine is a large, fairly heavy, separate cover beautifully made by Gingko. I handle it with kid gloves. Well, white cotton gloves anyway. If I do it right, I will only have to dust it off once in awhile.

Posted this last month, maybe helpfull..., posted on July 5, 2015 at 07:42:15
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RE: Posted this last month, maybe helpfull..., posted on July 5, 2015 at 08:22:23

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Here you go...

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Headlight Repair kit x2, posted on July 5, 2015 at 20:56:19

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Get any one of the kits that uses some kind of spinning foam or cloth wheel that attaches to a drill.

If you have a really bad cover you may want to get more aggressive and use wet sandpaper at 1000/2000/3000/4000 grit on a rubber block and them switch to the polish in the kit. Some kits come with sandpaper but check the grit because on a cover I would be nervous about using anything rougher than 1000.

Hand held drills can go too slow to be effective but if you use an electric drill make sure you have a variable speed drill because if you go too fast you can melt the plastic (acrylic) and totally ruin the cover. But don't let that scare you off. Common sense and basic caution will keep you out of trouble.

Thanks, one day I will learn to do that. nt., posted on July 6, 2015 at 07:49:11
ABliss Audiophile Posts: 1482 Joined: March 16, 2001 Contributor Since: August 3, 2002	nt.

RE: Posted this last month, maybe helpfull..., posted on July 6, 2015 at 09:13:49
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