Re: Plexiglas or whatever

[protek@shreve.net]

    Just for the record, I do use much finer sandpaper before I polish.
But my point was that I could pretty easily use 400 grit and polish.  It
would just take a longer time.  I use Novus polish (Red Label) that I get
from a plastics company here in Shreveport.  Works great!

G. Boucher

At 10:46 AM 3/30/99 -0800, you wrote:
>protek@shreve.net wrote:
>
>> [snip]        There are excellent polishes to remove scratches.
>>  For example; I have taken windows and sanded them with 400 grit sandpaper
>> and polished them to a near perfect optical condition. Acrylic is easy to
>> polish
>
>You also may want to wet sand after dry sanding with the 400 grit.  Then
use the
>polish.  Call an acrylics distributor for the proper polish and procedures.
>
>Recessing viewports, by the way, is an excellent idea.  It's the reason
why camera
>lenses are recessed - to avoid contact with anything but air (water in our
case).
>
>Rick
>
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>Rick Lucertini
>empiricus@sprint.ca
>(Vancouver, Canada)
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