I have a question about Acrylic. I have a piece of rod,when turned it gets cloudy. Can anyone tell me how to get the Acrylic back to clear? Thanks in advance.HEH
working with Acrylic
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Take 3 light passes?
Wet sand, using finer and finer gritt, then use micro mesh gritts, then Novus plastic polish, #3 then#2. Also as Joey said, small light passes as you work it on the lathe, then do the above. Too heavy of a cut heats the material and will leave cut marks that are harder to remove.
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rectifying your acrylic problem
You must wetsand it up to atleast 1200 grit and then use a polishing paste depending on if it has automotive urethane on it or bare... you need to use a urethane polishing paste such as finese-it II and it must be buffed out on a lathe so you can gain high-speed revolutions for optimum results... If it's just bare acrylic you can use jeweler's rouge "white" to accomplish the same results !
If you have any further questions please give me a call 321-631-1827 I will be more than happy to offer my knowlege regarding your plight !
sincerely, Eddie Wheat
You must wetsand it up to atleast 1200 grit and then use a polishing paste depending on if it has automotive urethane on it or bare... you need to use a urethane polishing paste such as finese-it II and it must be buffed out on a lathe so you can gain high-speed revolutions for optimum results... If it's just bare acrylic you can use jeweler's rouge "white" to accomplish the same results !
If you have any further questions please give me a call 321-631-1827 I will be more than happy to offer my knowlege regarding your plight !
sincerely, Eddie Wheat
My thanks to all of you for the advice.
Sand and polish in simplist terms , as stated. The only FYI is you really want to be using cast and not extruded rod for best result machining and finishing.