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plexiglass polish
Aurich:
That's why I use real glass now instead of plexi. My new cab has 1/4" tempered glass over the monitor.
rolls rolex:
I guess a mac G4 is made out of clear plexi, i polished out a huge deep scratch with Brasso brass polish. Little scratches you can polish out with toothpaste and water, especially white teeth toothpaste works good, that's a watchcollector trick :applaud: Just make sure you use a soft microfiber cloth not some rough old rag ;D
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Aurich on March 03, 2007, 01:13:20 pm ---That's why I use real glass now instead of plexi. My new cab has 1/4" tempered glass over the monitor.
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We were talking about covering the CP though. Could you use glass for that?
My own choice would be to cover the CP with a laminated print and the monitor with glass, but still it's good to know how to polish things ;D
Loki:
I think glass would be too thick (you have thin glass but I doubt it is strong enough)
Sure you can get some custom made glass overlay... but it'll cost ya I guess ^^;
I think Plexi is fine... polish it from time to time and when it gets too ugly just replace it.
Just keep all build designs with your cab :)
bfauska:
I would think that 1/4" tempered glass would be strong enough an it's no thicker than the Plexiglas most folks use.
If you wanted to do a cp with the glass you could contact a custom glass shop or I would try contacting somebody with a waterjet. We have steel parts made sometimes and the price is surprisingly not too bad. I bet you could get a custom glass cp cut for about $60, if I didn't have access to plenty Plexiglas and I wasn't such a cheap bastard, I would probably look into it myself.
Polishing plexi is also not too difficult. I have done some work on museum exhibits and displays in the past and fabricating with plexi almost allways includes some polishing. Once you get the hang of it, it goes fairly smoothly.
I just need to figure out some art to put under some plexi, then I'll be set.
Later,
Brian