Originally Posted by
HighWing
Dan,
Lexan cannot be polished to perfection. If it was something just to look at, it might work. Our problem is that it has to be looked through. There will alwalys be a haze in the polished area. Acrylic can be polished, but I think it would require a power buffer. With polishing Acryic, don't start with a very fine glazing type compound, all it will do is polish the edges of the scratches. First start with a coarse compound or something like 1200 or 1500 wet dry sand paper to remove the scratch, then progressively remove the ever finer scratches progressively finer compounds. I would suggest different bonnets for each grade of polish. You don't want to use a polish bonnet with the ultra fine compound that has also been used with a coarser compound. Keep them separately in zip bags. This from the old old days when we were learning to polish dental appliances.
Lowell