Buffing/sanding acrylic what are the steps?

[Anonymous]

I'm going to need to lightly buff some scratches out of a 120 tank I have sitting in the basement, and I'm currently just testing on scrap pieces of acrylic to try to get the right "formula"

So far I only have the stuff sitting around the house as materials, basically I dont want to buy anything that'll be useless. I have some 220 grit paper, and some fine polishing paper that my grandfather used to use with metal. Now I tried the polishing paper and while it did get a scratch out nicely it left the entire area really hazy (that seemed to go away when I wet it.. ) so I feel I might be on the right track, just maybe need an even finer paper?

Anyways any help would be appreciative.

 

[Anonymous]

Check out my forum and see if you can dig up some old thread. In a nut shell, you need to get some micromesh sandpaper. I used it, and it work like a charm... with some elbow grease.

 

[Anonymous]

Ahh mucho nachos muchacho. Read some of the articles found the micromesh stuff is needed, wish I knew what my polishing paper grit is. Guess I'll take a trip down to homedepot to see if they have any of these things. If not I found a website with a kit.