Thread: Polishing original plastic scales

What do you guys use to polish or shine up the old plastic scales. Any advice is appreciated...

Robert

Novus 1 2 3 is as good as it gets. It's not terribly fast, but you can go from scratched to heck to mirror shine.

I used wet/dry sandpaper on some of my scales. They had some scratches in em, so I used around 400 to start and moved up to 1k. After that, I used Maas and a cloth and buffed em as best as I could (i don't have a buffer) and they came out like new. The Maas also shined up the pins too

If they're just grungy the Maas (as stated previously) or flitz wrok pretty decent. Otherwise go with the wet/dry s.p.

Besides the tips already given, Micro Mesh 12K puts a really high final mirror shine on plastic scales amongst other materials.

Off course the buffing wheel with white or plastic compound really puts the highest shine but you need to use a very low speed or the scales can melt.

You do need to realize that these are most likely not plastic,, most vintage razors have Celluliod scales...

The camphor smell will give them away as you start to clean them, the real difference is how fragile they are when compared to plastic, and also their sensitivity to heat. Plastic will soften and melt where celluliod will ignite...
So just take your time and first figure out what they are and then if they are celluliod just be more careful working them..