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#53351 Sat Apr 02 2005 09:30 PM
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I have some original plastic white globe bodies that are in good shape except they're dirty. What's the best way to clean these up?
Also I have seen advertized some buffing compund for plastic to restore the luster to plastic. Has anyone had any experience with polishing plastic?
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T-Way has taken the foged up and yellowed plastic windows in a parking metor and polished them to crystal clear, he has a compound that he uses on his buffing wheel, it works real well


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There is a special wide but small diameter buffing wheel and a blue bar of buffing compound that you will need. I have used it many times and it works well. It will not take out deep scratches but will restore the original shine and color and remove very light scratches.

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Neal:

Chris is right. I got Some plastic polish and the wheel that goes with it when I bought my buffer. I used the compound and wheel to polish out some serious scratches on the plastic windows on an old Duncan-Miller Parking Meter I'm redoing.

I startred with some wet-or-dry 400 to remove the surface scratches and the majority of the deep scratches - then just went to town with the compound.

The only thing you have to watch for is to make sure that you use a very light touch. Otherwise, you take the chance of melting the plastic and making a divot in it.

If your bodies are just 'dull' and a regular soap-n-water cleaning won't bring them back - try a little fine automotive polishing compound and see if that works. I've had good luck doing that.

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Maguires also sells a 'Clear Plastic Cleaner', a 'Clear Plastic Polish' & 'Clear Plastic Detailer'. You can ususlly get them at a decent automotive parts store that would carry a lot of wax products. Or you can find them on the web. they work for very light scratches - but won't do much for any major problems.

Hope this helps.

Later . . .

Jim
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