Polished T-molding

[rablack97]

Hello Folks,

Any ideas on how to polish t-molding so it looks like this.

[JDFan]

Would think that Armor-all would work (it definitely does similar on car dashboards etc. when used on them) 

[rablack97]

That's a shine enhancer, this was polished, I want the same finish that's on arcade buttons.

[JDFan]

They make polish also !

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[404]

My first guess would be an average plastic polish with a drill, buffer or dremel buffing wheel and some plastic headlight polish

[rablack97]

woohoo thanks guys.......

I read some other tuts, and they mentioned sanding first with a fine grit sandpaper and finishing off with 2000 grit....then polish.

Do you see a need for that or just use polish and a buffing wheel.

[404]

I haven't done a whole lot of buffing to plastics in quite a while.

If i were doing this, i would just test using various polishes on a scrap piece of molding. if that doesn't work out, i go the sandpaper route if you can find 2000 grit readily available at your local hardware store. Your best way to combat this with sandpaper is to do a dry run first. then wet-sand using the same final grit twice. Once with just bare water and the second time using waster and dishwashing detergent. Then polish.

[404]

I was sitting in the garage and realized i had a spare chunk of red T-molding, fine sandpaper and various buffing compounds laying around here. You can already scratch using a dremel and a felt pad from your polishing.  I tested using a standard medium strength felt pad and various compounds but the T-molding i have here is just too soft for the speed of the dremel and a felt pad. Nothing i tried would prevent burn in swirls on the T-molding.

You would be better off trying a standard drill and a foam or very soft cloth polishing pad may be best.

[rablack97]

Yeah i figured dremel would be to concentrated. i got some t-molding i can toy around with, gonna get some polish tomorrow. Post some pics of the results....

[thehammer12]

I actually just saw what looked like stainless steel t molding, but It was plastic with a stainless steel polish "look" on it.

I was pretty impressed with it, it looked like a mirror.

[kahlid74]

Yeap, I would use a Dremel and do a rough/fine sand and then a buffing.  Everything stated above is the way to go.  Late to the party as always .