Scratch remover?

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SGGG2
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Scratch remover?

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Just got a Skeleton Saturn :twisted: but the controllers have some noticable scratches :evil:

Does anyone have a recommendation?
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SGGG2 wrote:Just got a Skeleton Saturn :twisted: but the controllers have some noticable scratches :evil:

Does anyone have a recommendation?
Deal with it?

Seriously, there's no way to remove the scratches without making the whole thing look even worse.
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It depends on how deep the scratches are.
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Lotsa sanding, little paint, buffing, and polishing. See what this guy did ...............
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I'm assuming a skeleton Saturn would have skeleton controllers. If that's the case, painting them would kind of negate the whole point of having skeleton pieces.
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You can use car polish on a lot of types of plastic, if you started at a rough grit cutting compound to get the scratches out and slowly went to 2000+ grit you could get back a mirror shine. It takes a lot of time or a good variable speed buffer tho. If you were to go the buffer route, you really have to watch out for heat as it'll cloud or melt the plastic in no-time. I tried it on a GBC screen with pretty deep scratches and a large scuff-mark, and was able to get all the scratches out after about 25 minutes, but after going to 1000 grit, I found I needed a finer polish to get the reflection back to mirror-like rather than small circles. Then I found the replacement case at deal-extreme and threw my old case away.
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Scooter wrote:I'm assuming a skeleton Saturn would have skeleton controllers. If that's the case, painting them would kind of negate the whole point of having skeleton pieces.
But its a classic with the original factory paint!

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Well okay then try to polish it out ................
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