RE: [OT] Removing scratches from carbon fibre?

["JT @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,



Can I ask what you do / what your company does - polishes plastics in
modern
house building? (I can only think of windows & guttering and perhaps
giant
lego building blocks - you're not working on part of that 'house for 60k'
are you? ;o))



I've used g3 / g4 before in my 'car' days. I just had some reservations as
I
read somewhere that if I take too much of the resin off and get to the
carbon, it would weaken the forks - but, with some cutting compound I think
that should certainly help!.



Any comments from your resident tech would be appreciated.



Cheers,

Jonathan.







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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Rob Mouser
Sent: 01 March 2006 07:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Removing scratches from carbon fibre?



> & dry, then use a resin to polish them. The wet & dry bit im
happy
with
> (they are only surface scratches) but I'm getting really stuck when it
> comes
> to the polishing/resin bit.

We do an awful lot of plastic polishing but I must say my knowledge
doesn't extend to carbon fibre as you don't find to much of that it
modern house building! :-)
However, I would try some course compound. Something like Farecla G3
paste as a starter. If that works you can then finish off just using a
standard quality car polish such as Autoglym.
You say that they are surface scratches? If they are reasonably light I
would advise not going below 1500g w&d (in fact I would start at 2000g
and see if that's sufficient) and make sure you use it wet with very
soapy water.
I would also avoid too much heat initially which means no mops and
electric polishers! You cant beat a bit of good old fashioned muscle
when it comes to getting controlled results :-)
When I get to the office this avo I'll ask one of our techy guys if they
would advise anything different.

HTH

Rob







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