need help, scratches on acrylic....

[bueller]

Hey everyone,

i just got a great deal on a acrylic tank [20 gal long] for my mantis tank i want to do. the only problem is there are some scratches on the front of the tank....it will drive me crazy trying to look at the tank with them there. is it easy to remove them. or who can...

Bueller

 

[bad coffee]

google 'novus scratch remover'

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[mshur]

I have novus 1,2,3 ..works great.. LMK if you need..

 

[samster]

how deep or the scratches? the novus only acts as a polish it doesn't really remove deep scratches but with acrylic i've wet sanded and polished my whole tank as you would do to a clearcoat finish on a car and i found it to remove the deepest scratchs, just sand it down with some 1500-2500 grid wetsand paper and wet sand it with a cutting pad on a buffer and then compounded it then glazed it, but make sure u wash out the tank well after.

 

[bueller]

they don't look deep, just really ulgy

 

[junglebase]

they don't look deep, just really ulgy

Hey John, you need a lot of elbow grease!... what have you gotten yourself into.. :sigh: j/k...

 

[bueller]

I spoke with wingo today, I'm going to try and clean it up myself { first }, it's not about paying to have it done but I'm kinda a DIY guy and never did it before so I would like to try { hopefully i won't destroy it } and clean it up myself. if I'm not happy with my results I'll just let wingo fix it. I ordered a set of novus scratch remover today. Will post some phot's of the before and after....should be fun

Thanks
Bueller

 

[samster]

lol give up on the novus!!!!!! i used their roughest polish as one of my finer polishes before the complete buffin job, if its deep scratches u must sand!

 

[bueller]

when i run my finger across them i don't feel them? guess thats a good thing.