Have you actually used one?

Croosh wrote:

It was OK for
microscratshes, but deeper ones it didn't do much good, and using a
drill makes distortion more likely than a flat sanding pad.

Long ago, I worked as a silversmith. When polishing out scratches, we found that
using a buffing wheel in the same direction as the scratch would deepen the
scratch; the compound just ate the scratch out deeper. Eventually it would
polish out, but you took off a lot of surrounding material. Orienting the whhel
at 90 degrees to scratches polished the scratches out with less material loss.
We got the best results by using a rag to remove polishing compound from the
scratches every minute or two.

I suppose it would be the same in this situation.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

IIRC the mmicro mesh as well as what i read on acrulic repairs while
in the USAF, stated to go across the scratches at a 90 deg angle, and
then at a 45 etc etc, and not to work the repair all in the same
direction, but keep varying the abrasives angles over the deeper
scratches, until its all blended in.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:24:05 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:
Croosh wrote:

It was OK for
microscratshes, but deeper ones it didn't do much good, and using a
drill makes distortion more likely than a flat sanding pad.

Long ago, I worked as a silversmith. When polishing out scratches, we found that
using a buffing wheel in the same direction as the scratch would deepen the
scratch; the compound just ate the scratch out deeper. Eventually it would
polish out, but you took off a lot of surrounding material. Orienting the whhel
at 90 degrees to scratches polished the scratches out with less material loss.
We got the best results by using a rag to remove polishing compound from the
scratches every minute or two.

I suppose it would be the same in this situation.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

--
\\\|///
( @ @ )
-----------oOOo(_)oOOo---------------


oooO
---------( )----Oooo----------------
\ ( ( )
\_) ) /
(_/
The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates....