James S
Flashlight Enthusiast
I figure if there are people that can tell me if it's possible, they are here
2 full days of driving with my 2 year old daughter had prompted me to open my wallet for a "fun tv" system from BestBuy, as they were on sale. It includes a 5" flat screen monitor and a 12v DC video cassette player for the car. This amused her quite a bit on the way out, worked quite well.
When loading up the car for the trip back however, I sat her in her seat and as I was fishing for the straps she revealed that she had brought in a rock from the parking lot and to my horror made 3 hard swipes at the screen by way of telling me she wanted it turned on!
She left some pretty good scratches on the plastic screen. No damage other than that. I suppose that if I just packed it away for the next trip I wouldn't really care as it didn't bother her any. But I had wanted to play with the thing a bit myself and I know that it would drive me up the wall to look at that on a brand new screen.
Is there any way to polish plastic? Might those scratches be buffed out? Has anyone any experience or wisdom to offer on polishing or buffing compounds for such a project?
Obviously a massive change in light transmission around the scratches caused by poor buffing would end up being more distracting than the scratches, so I'm not planning to mess with it until I gather some more info.
It just occurs to me that it may be possible to take the whole thing apart and replace the plastic in front of the screen, unless it is part of the LCD display. I'll have to try that as well...
Thanks,
James
2 full days of driving with my 2 year old daughter had prompted me to open my wallet for a "fun tv" system from BestBuy, as they were on sale. It includes a 5" flat screen monitor and a 12v DC video cassette player for the car. This amused her quite a bit on the way out, worked quite well.
When loading up the car for the trip back however, I sat her in her seat and as I was fishing for the straps she revealed that she had brought in a rock from the parking lot and to my horror made 3 hard swipes at the screen by way of telling me she wanted it turned on!
She left some pretty good scratches on the plastic screen. No damage other than that. I suppose that if I just packed it away for the next trip I wouldn't really care as it didn't bother her any. But I had wanted to play with the thing a bit myself and I know that it would drive me up the wall to look at that on a brand new screen.
Is there any way to polish plastic? Might those scratches be buffed out? Has anyone any experience or wisdom to offer on polishing or buffing compounds for such a project?
Obviously a massive change in light transmission around the scratches caused by poor buffing would end up being more distracting than the scratches, so I'm not planning to mess with it until I gather some more info.
It just occurs to me that it may be possible to take the whole thing apart and replace the plastic in front of the screen, unless it is part of the LCD display. I'll have to try that as well...
Thanks,
James