Machine buffing plastic

[SVR]

A friend of mine told me many years ago you can't buff plastic and I know why (can melt the plastic if too much heat) but today I was practising with the makita rotary using Top Gear Final Glaze and 3M Rub Compnd and Farecla G3 on the paint of a very neglected white toyota utility that I've been using for taking my gear to dad's office for detailing his cars



Doesn't matter what happens to this thing so I had a go



Black Plastic backing of side mirrors on 700rpm

Door handle at same speed

Painted front bumper and even the windscreen



The Cutting compounds worked great on the paint but the top gear did a magical job on the plastic and in some cases I only used a damp brush on the plastic and it came up amazing



Certainly I will not do this on a customers car but with this old banger it's no big deal. The paint is almost dark grey now it's so bad except for the two shiny white panels that I buffed today.

Side mirror backing came up wicked. It was scratched and dull but now is shiny and extra dark black.



I even had a go at buffing the wheels. These wheels are ultra scratched but where I could fit the pad into, the final glaze which is a wet look polish/glaze took them off like lightning. Strange



This is crazy I know but I do like to experiment and try something illogical. Will take some pics tomorrow.



Are you :shocked

 

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you can use machine on plastic( backside of mirrors) because the plastic can be painted too. The earlier cavaliers have that black plastic that become oxidized over time. When you refer to a machine are you only talking rotory or PC as well. as long as you take precautions to using these machines except the pc you should be fine.

 

[SVR]

Makita rotary and no higher than 750 rpm.

It's difficult getting the 7" pad into all areas but where I could, it certainly was a piece of cake and beats hand cutting immensly

Only took a few seconds and the front bumper had a lovely wet look to it using the top gear FG



Thanks for the advice. I'll use it carefully