Suggestions For Help On Some Restoring

[Gluecifer]

As I'm not going to find a replacement any time soon, I thought I'd have a go at fixing up the one I've got.

I'm talking about the TRC-975 second deck door which some feline has attempted to open the hard way.

As you can see theres a good amount scratch marks on the clear part, these are what I want to try and remove.

I was going to attempt with wet and dry sand paper, followed by brasso. I'll mask of the printed area, as I can restore them
easily enough with paint.

But I thought and ask what methods you guys have used that have worked on clear plastic.

Thanks brothers!



Rock On.

 

[TRC-911]

DON'T USE BRASSO!!! for the cassette door,that is. I would dust it, then go to the auto store and buy some Buffing compound for transparent glass. or, some Maguiars cut and polish buffing compund. also, I would buy a bunch of very soft auto detailing cloths. use some chrome cleaner on the chrome, antenneas, and some various size paint brushes to clean the dust out from all the nooks and crannies. Good luck, I'll post a pic of my old 975 and how I took the cleaning too far

 

[TRC-911]

an easier way though, the plastic cover on the door (graphics) are removable, I would take the graphic off, scan t, clean it up on photoshop and have a new one printed out at a local graphics shop or go to fatdog

 

[redbenjoe]

what chris said

plus... ask hemiguy about getting the door clear-
he has the magic formular//procedure

 

[Fatdog]

Yeah, Frank uses the Novus 3-stage polish system. That might be the ticket you're looking for, Rick!

 

[hemiguy2006]

Novus would be the final stage only. If those graffic's are under the clear plastic I would definitely suggest wet sanding those gouges out first.
That door is going to require quite a bit of work but it shouldn't be impossible to make it look good again.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Need to see the whole box in order too...SCREW THE LIES....I just want to see the whole radio!!!!

 

[Alf]

The good news is that aside from the white, all of the graphics are screen printed on the reverse side. The bad news is that, well there's a lot of white on that puppy.... Hmmm. A sign ship may be your best bet but I'm sure all they'll do is vinyl. This is a toughy. Personally I'd buff the hell out of it and wait to find a donor.

 

[hemiguy2006]

Why would they have only printed the white on the outside????
I would have guessed all the graphics were all under the clear.

 

[sony_apm_fan]

If the graphics are printed on the back....

Hit it with 1200 Wet and Dry, then 1800 if you can get it.
Polish with Meguiars PlastX, I have found it really good.

These scratches look deep though, anything you can track with your nail will usually only sand out...