gibbous
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Just curious where everyone goes. My local Lowes and Home Despot have wet/dry that only goes up to 600. I think I need 800, 1000, maybe 2000 (I'm fixin' to sand out some scratched in graffiti in my Punch-Out!! plexi).
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You might also check Tap plastic, not sure if you have one down south.
To polish out a scratch in plex you gotta go higher than 2000 grit![]()
I went looking for higher than 2000 around me, but could only find 2000 at Autozone. I used a combination of that and Novus on my Turbo plexi bezel. It's okay, but not great. Novus might be nice for car headlights, but it's not good enough on clear areas of plexi...in spite of what everyone here seems to think. I might look for 2500 or 3000 online and see how that works...then use Novus.
Just curious where everyone goes. My local Lowes and Home Despot have wet/dry that only goes up to 600. I think I need 800, 1000, maybe 2000 (I'm fixin' to sand out some scratched in graffiti in my Punch-Out!! plexi).
I doubt Novus was the problem. Bad results polishing out scratches is usually because you moved too quickly through the sandpaper grits. With deep scratches you need to start with something fairly rough (like 600 or even 400) and slowly work your way up with finer and finer grits. You should be wet-sanding with 2000 or 2500 before you move up to Novus. First Novus 3 and then Novus 2. I use an orbital buffer to polish bezels with Novus. And you must have patience... the whole process will take hours.
http://www.pinrestore.com/Supplies.html
has 3000, 2500,2000, 1500, 1200, 1000, 800, 600 and on down.
has lots of other tools and supplies that are great for those of us that focus more on pins, but will probably come in useful for video projects as well
I doubt Novus was the problem. Bad results polishing out scratches is usually because you moved too quickly through the sandpaper grits. With deep scratches you need to start with something fairly rough (like 600 or even 400) and slowly work your way up with finer and finer grits. You should be wet-sanding with 2000 or 2500 before you move up to Novus. First Novus 3 and then Novus 2. I use an orbital buffer to polish bezels with Novus. And you must have patience... the whole process will take hours.
The pack I bought comes with these grits, are these enough steps?
220 grit
320 grit
400 grit
600 grit
800 grit
1000 grit
1500 grit
2000 grit
2500 grit
3000 grit