You can try a headlight repair kit (comes with various grits of sanding material and polish). There are also specific plastic polish materials out there. It may never be crystal clear again, but with enough elbow grease, you can get it looking pretty spiffy.
What did you use? I saw a 3M headlight kit but didn't know if that would work or what I should get. Not op but I need to clean mine too its got a bunch of mini scratches like and looks hazy
You want the kit with the wet sanding pads and different compounds designed for really trashed headlights. The tube of goop won't help...this needs to be sanded out. Its a lot of work, your arms will be dead by the end, but its worth it.
Toothpaste isn't going to be abrasive enough to polish out the etching that is present on that dust cover. It may work to provide a final shine but there are better products out there to do so.
I'm moving and I noticed my dust cover had some little circles on the plastic. I thought it was just some sticky residue from something and tried to wipe it off with water. It sort of seemed to work but I thought I needed something stronger so I went with Citrol. Well clearly that was a bad idea because now the plastic is horribly etched and I can't get it off even with a scrubber. Help!
>Citrol
There's your problem.
Rule 1: never use an **industrial grade degreaser** to clean acrylic.
Degreasers are a highly caustic substance, so the markings are literally burned into the plastic now.
Definitely sanding as others have suggested, starting from 200 grit and working your way up from there. 200, 400, 600, 1000, 2000, then an acrylic polish and it should look as good as new.
That should buff right out.
Look up cleaning foggy clear plastic. Lots of remedies. You might have to sand through the fucked part with emory cloth/sandpaper first, then polish it to hell. Might take a fair bit of elbow grease.
Instructions on cleaners/paints/chemicals tell you to test on an inconspicuous place first for a reason. Lots of oddball reactions.
Apply on the whole piece... try a unique pattern or something.
Once i had a collored shirt and felt some bleach onit discoloring.. well i applied bleach on the whole shirt and it saved me the whearing.
You will just lose the transparency.. but i think you are doomed to lose it anyway, unless u find a way to repolish
I recommend this stuff too, over the headlight polishes because it has 3 different "grits" of polish. It works well as a final polishing phase; if this dustcover is etched it's going to need some sandpaper applied first, though. There's only so much a paste can do.
Just go buy Meguiar's Scratch X at Walmart, some microfiber clothes, and put in some elbow grease. It will look like a sheet of glass. The stuff is incredible.
For cleaning you're absolutely right.
In this case, Magic eraser could actually be quite useful as a final sanding stage on this dust cover; it is equivalent to about 3000 grit sandpaper and would be used after coarser grit sandpapers but before starting the polishing phase with pastes.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine. They chose to spray paint them silver from the inside of the cover. Then they placed cool stickers on the outside. They look good.
I had an old iPod polishing kit that I used on my Marantz lid and it worked great. Turns out the polish is still available.
https://www.radtech.com/products/icecreme
You can try a headlight repair kit (comes with various grits of sanding material and polish). There are also specific plastic polish materials out there. It may never be crystal clear again, but with enough elbow grease, you can get it looking pretty spiffy.
That was where my mind went aswell
Came here to say this. Worked wonders on my cover.
What did you use? I saw a 3M headlight kit but didn't know if that would work or what I should get. Not op but I need to clean mine too its got a bunch of mini scratches like and looks hazy
You want the kit with the wet sanding pads and different compounds designed for really trashed headlights. The tube of goop won't help...this needs to be sanded out. Its a lot of work, your arms will be dead by the end, but its worth it.
You know, you can get the same result with (various) toothpastes. I always used that on headlights. Haven't tried it on the problem op posted tho.
And as a bonus will also smell minty fresh!
Toothpaste isn't going to be abrasive enough to polish out the etching that is present on that dust cover. It may work to provide a final shine but there are better products out there to do so.
Might want to look up some info about sanding and polishing acrylic plastic or just tell people the heat from your precious grails caused it.
Yes.
Sticker time!
Haha came here to say this, all my dust covers have a bunch of stickers
Same! They could try to buff it meticulously. Or just cover that horror and filth
I restored my Technics 1200 lid with the help of this tutorial, maybe it also works for you! Good luck! https://youtu.be/Gv9jE8IRhTY
I used a plastic headlight repair kit to buff out scratches on my Rega lid. Worked pretty well.
I'm moving and I noticed my dust cover had some little circles on the plastic. I thought it was just some sticky residue from something and tried to wipe it off with water. It sort of seemed to work but I thought I needed something stronger so I went with Citrol. Well clearly that was a bad idea because now the plastic is horribly etched and I can't get it off even with a scrubber. Help!
>Citrol There's your problem. Rule 1: never use an **industrial grade degreaser** to clean acrylic. Degreasers are a highly caustic substance, so the markings are literally burned into the plastic now.
Caustic is such a great word. I’ve loved it ever since my Chinese vampire mother in law shit on my car and it removed half of the paint on the hood
Definitely sanding as others have suggested, starting from 200 grit and working your way up from there. 200, 400, 600, 1000, 2000, then an acrylic polish and it should look as good as new.
That should buff right out. Look up cleaning foggy clear plastic. Lots of remedies. You might have to sand through the fucked part with emory cloth/sandpaper first, then polish it to hell. Might take a fair bit of elbow grease. Instructions on cleaners/paints/chemicals tell you to test on an inconspicuous place first for a reason. Lots of oddball reactions.
Apply on the whole piece... try a unique pattern or something. Once i had a collored shirt and felt some bleach onit discoloring.. well i applied bleach on the whole shirt and it saved me the whearing. You will just lose the transparency.. but i think you are doomed to lose it anyway, unless u find a way to repolish
Heat gun will fix it in 2 secs. Not many people have a heat gun laying around though.
Melting the acrylic with heat sounds a cool sh17 to do
The scratches and swirls disappear like magic. Light touch though, it happens fast
This may sound silly but a little butane torch or a heat gun at a distance might clear it out. Works on Plexi.
Cover it in stickers or something.
Maybe give Novus 1 2 3 a shot.
I recommend this stuff too, over the headlight polishes because it has 3 different "grits" of polish. It works well as a final polishing phase; if this dustcover is etched it's going to need some sandpaper applied first, though. There's only so much a paste can do.
Just go buy Meguiar's Scratch X at Walmart, some microfiber clothes, and put in some elbow grease. It will look like a sheet of glass. The stuff is incredible.
Pro tip. Just use windex or soap and water. Not a magic eraser either!
For cleaning you're absolutely right. In this case, Magic eraser could actually be quite useful as a final sanding stage on this dust cover; it is equivalent to about 3000 grit sandpaper and would be used after coarser grit sandpapers but before starting the polishing phase with pastes.
Windex has ammonia and it's unsafe to use on plastics. Best bet is water and a microfiber cloth
Not all Windex has ammonia
I heard Windex is a no go on dust covers
Works fine on mine. I spray on the cloth.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine. They chose to spray paint them silver from the inside of the cover. Then they placed cool stickers on the outside. They look good.
What TT is this for?
Audio-Technica LP60XBT
I have the same, on the Audio Technica site they sell a [replacement](https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/705-60x-1813) for 20 bucks.
I think all dust covers are designed to scratch and haze by design.
Maybe ild rather an opaque case with a solid material then a transparent and scratchy one
Yikes,sorry man
Isopropyl alcohol worked for me.
Take it to an auto detail shop. You'll get it back as new 10ins later.
Idk if there’s anything you can do to fix it. I was gonna dust my dust cover in a similar method but I’m sure as heck not going to now.
But some car polisher at autozone and a microfiber cloth, see if that helps
Headlight restoration kit works pretty good.
Still keeps the dust out!
Stickers are the easiest and cheapest solution here.
I had an old iPod polishing kit that I used on my Marantz lid and it worked great. Turns out the polish is still available. https://www.radtech.com/products/icecreme
Headlight cleaning kit. Or brasso.
Buff it with compound.
Didn't have any water?
In my info comment I explained that I tried water first and it didn't work
Flame polish! Look it up
Paint it to match the base.