Polishing plastic?
 

I need to polish the edge of a peice of polycarbonate plastic to a shine...optical polishing, if you will. How can I get it like this? I've smoothed the edge down with sandpaper, then with wet and dry...if I keep using finer and finer grades of wet and dry will it become shiny smooth? Or always dull? I'm a bit hesitant to use any polishing liquids, incase it interferes with the experiment I m planning to do with the material

Matt

Re: Polishing plastic?
 

if i can remember back to DT at school, i used fine wet and dry, it should work

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Re: Polishing plastic?
 

I have special stuff I used when restoring pinball machines, but I found metal polish or T cut worked just as well

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I'll give that a go tigersaw, I should be able to find something to make sure the surface is mega clean (its gonna be used for scanning electron microscopy to view the layers of material...the anti-scratch coating etc, so it needs to be really polished and clean)

Mrs_24/7....sorry for the boring question, but you didnt have to read it ;):p:D

Matt

Re: Polishing plastic?
 

get mrs alpinsstarshero to do it............ after all its a womens job, Polishing

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Run hovis, RuN!!!! You'll get a slap for that :p

Good idea though...

Matt

Re: Polishing plastic?
 

It may well be a womans job, but............................if you want it doing properly................................


OK I am getting my coat.

Re: Polishing plastic?
 

Brasso and a soft duster. Worked at school on perspex edges for me!

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Autosol is working!!! Figured it was similar to brasso, being metal polish (well, thats the only similarity)

Matt