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10-03-09, 09:26 PM
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How do you get rid of Scratches
Does any one know how to get rid of Scratches on Plastic, I have tried T Cut, but its not bringing it out
any one got any Ideas Thanks |
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10-03-09, 09:27 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
autosol?
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10-03-09, 09:31 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
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It depends on how deep the scratches. I presume its on fairings? I have something called Farecla G4, its a cutting compound used on new paints, and it polishes up to a nice shine. I have only had to use it once or twice, when the usual t cut hasn't worked
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10-03-09, 09:40 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
Depends how deep they are. If its through the paint then you wont get them out.
If not, try Auto Glymns Cutting Polish, worked a treat on my seat cowl after I scuffed it with my boot one day.
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10-03-09, 09:45 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
I had scratches on my plastics and ended up using a wax crayon of the same colour
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10-03-09, 10:15 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
can you feel the scratch with your nail?
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10-03-09, 10:44 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
As others have said, if it's through the plastic it'll be a respray.
If it's a surface scratch a cutting polish might help. Effectively you remove the paint/clearcoat down to the bottom of the scratch so that it disapears. Autoglym "Super Resin Polish" also "fills" the scratch with light polymer resins which helps. The SV doesn't seem to have a clearcoat - based on the fact that if you polish it the paint ends up on the pad. Therefore you have to be careful not to remove too much paint when polishing, and not to polish too often because you could rub through the paint eventually. After polishing, wax to protect the paint. |
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10-03-09, 11:06 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
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 Never had any of my SVs paint bleeding out onto the cloth. I always thought they had a clearcoat. In my yellow ones case the yellow is a pearl mica, and the paintshop sent a clearcoat out with the basecoat and yellow, when I had to to touch it up.
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10-03-09, 11:29 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
ignore them and hope they go away work's for me.
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10-03-09, 11:54 PM
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Re: How do you get rid of Scratches
Cover them over with more scratches.
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