Anyone have experience working on acrylic tanks with NOVUS?

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As I've mentioned in a few previous threads I just picked up a 90g acrylic tank thats a little foggy on the front. There are a couple spots on the front that it looks like someone was trying to buff on. They are smooth but foggy. I was thinking about buying one of the novus starter kits + buffer kit and trying to polish them out, but I am new at this. Any suggestions/reccomendations?
 
I love Novus. One of the best acrylic polish kits on the market today. For a little foggy spot, I'd start with step two, then step one and then buff it with a dry towel after spraying with with a 50/50 mix of step 1 and water. (The 50/50 mix works great for cleaning finger prints, smudges etc...)
 
Thank you, you have no idea how much I appreciate even a little advice. Like I said, I'm very new at this acrylic stuff.
 
I just finished buffing out a really rough 115 gal. Novus is great but not magic, I had to do some sanding and use step 2 most of all. Most say to use fine sand paper on scratches, but I used the finest steel wool (0000 grade?) for sanding and it worked great (Found at the sand paper at Lowes etc.) A foggy spot may require some sanding if it was cause by burning the acrylic with too much buffing. I used a random orbital buffer with #2 and got great results and cleaned with #1. #3 was useless.

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While NOVUS itself is great, a random orbital buffer to use with it makes a huge difference (to me). If you start with 3 or fine sandpaper, it will look worse before it gets better obviously, but the work ends up worth it when it's sparkling clear.
 
qadaemon said:
While NOVUS itself is great, a random orbital buffer to use with it makes a huge difference (to me). If you start with 3 or fine sandpaper, it will look worse before it gets better obviously, but the work ends up worth it when it's sparkling clear.
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they sell a small buffing kit that attatches to "any household drill," that I intended on ordering. Would that be ok?
 
Another way to go is 3M's headlight restoration kit that you can get at most car parts stores. It comes with vairous fine grade sandpaper, a buffing pad and polish. Even comes with the drill attachment.

In my 5,000 gallon shark tank build thread I have some pics and info about scratch removal on acrylic (dry and underwater).
 
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