Tip for cleaning up that scuffed Acrylic Crystal

Submitted by OldTicker on March 14, 2011 - 11:29pm

I found a product this weekend that seemed to work great on that scuffed acrylic crystal.

It is called "PlastX" and is made by Meguiars. It is made to clean up Auto headlight covers, convertible windows, plexiglass, CD's, ect...

I found it to leave a much clearer finish than "Brasso" with a lot less polishing time. I used a "micro-fiber" polishing cloth with a little dab on it, rubbed the crystal in a circular motion for about 2-3 minutes, buffed it with a clean part of the cloth and POOF! no more scuffs and as clear as a new one.

$4.39 for a 10 oz bottle at your local Auto parts store.

plainsmen
Posted March 14, 2011 - 11:33pm

Very nice Greg.... shooter144 suggested the same to me last week.  It's like you guys share the same mind!

shooter144
Posted March 14, 2011 - 11:41pm

OOooOOOhhh WoW thats not good..two of my minds could lead directly to the apocolypse>>>>OH you mean we share a SINGLE mind lol well thats not near as dangerous lol

shooter144
Posted March 14, 2011 - 11:39pm

Damn !! I meant to post that for every one else lol Its some really good stuff !!! no swirls and I used it on a bad junker with the dremel and it works very good on some deep gouges. Im sure if you are not carefull it would still burn but it is nothing like brasso. Excellent stuff !!!!!!!!!

It also leaves a much finer near swirl free finish on the gold fill as well..

OldTicker
Posted March 14, 2011 - 11:40pm

Is that Good or Bad?? :-)

Pun intended Shooter!

OldTicker
Posted March 15, 2011 - 10:56pm

Shooter,

Use Gold Tripoli with a felt wheel on the cases, then run over them with the Red (Jewelers) buffing compound and cloth wheel, finish is like new.

shooter144
Posted March 14, 2011 - 11:54pm

Lol thats still greek to me....no buffer so my stuff is haaaaaand polish.....lots and lots of haaaaaand polish lol scared to use a machine and go thru the gold, its kinda hard to put it back on, Ive tried !!!

OldTicker
Posted March 15, 2011 - 12:48am

If you have a Dremel you are 3/4 of the way there, all you need is to spend about $15.00 on the right compounds and $10.00 on the right pads, I'll walk you through the rest.

shooter144
Posted March 15, 2011 - 12:52am

Ima order a rotary from Otto Frei maybe this week, need the multi speed (my dremel is the high speed version, like 30,000rpm...way too fast for gold work) the Otto frei one is foot pedal controll down to I think 5000rpm, flex shaft takes the standard heads all for about $90, not much more than a new vari spd dremel....the right pads and compounds are unknown to me lol so help is apreciated.

el-ooose
Posted March 15, 2011 - 8:33am

But do be careful with your dremels guys. Only on gold fill and RGP. If you use your dremel on electroplate you will be down to base metal before you know it. The 70's electroplate Accutron's for instance, seem to have some kind of laquer baked on to them, one touch with the dremel and your through it leaving a very brassy and patchy surface.

Good gold filled can be buffed quite hard, but even then it is easily possible to get down to base metal.

OldTicker
Posted March 15, 2011 - 10:11am

The trick is to make sure all the dirt is cleaned away, use light pressure and never buff in one spot to long, and as Philip said, Gold filled or RGP, Electroplate or even HGE is to thin for machine work.

I'll post up some suppliers later tonight.

NOVA
Posted March 15, 2011 - 7:41pm

This is really helpful info for us newbies.  Thanks guys!

OldTicker
Posted March 15, 2011 - 11:11pm

I get compound and wheels plus other things from both FDR on Time & National Jewlers Supply (google for link)

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