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Building Integrity
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Date: 4-27-2013
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Number of Hours: 1.50
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Manual Reference: ch 18
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Brief Description: oops be gone
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sooooooooo while is was sanding with my DA sander and slipped I put a huge regret in the side of my canopy. I was able to sand it down with Novus Polish to where it's almost totally gone, however it left a crater in the glass that noticable from certain angles....talk about something to lose sleep over. Ugh. Anyway in my many many hours of research I came up with nothing for a FIX. Only scratch removal, but not the ability to fill in the void. WELL, I had this idea; Take a windshield repair kit, inject the resin onto the crater effectively "filling it in" and let it cure. Then polish it up to match the rest of the canopy. SOOO, I took a piece of Scrap Lexan I had and put 2 scratches on it. One DEEP and another not so bad. Let's test the idea :) So I sanded from 600 grit all the way down to 3000 grit and then polished it up to a shine. I then, injected the resin, laid over it a thin piece of plastic that came with the kit and allowed it to cure in the sunlight. 2 insteresting conclusions... 1, the void was perfectly filled and cured completely transparent. 2. I now could only see a ring around the scratch where Resin meets Canopy. VERY Thin line. I tried buffing it for 10 minutes and basically concluded that the border could not be completely done away with. SO: either live with a crater, OR live with a border line. Now I rushed through this test pretty quick so I may try it again with a little more precision and elbow grease. IF IF IF I can make that transition disapear, then I've found what MANY people are looking for as a cure for deep scratches....stay tuned.
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