How to remove scratches from slabs

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This is good information. I will try some car wax, should do the same thing. That is unless I can get scratch out for $2. Thanks

 

Yet again another amazing old thread!

Does the car body scratch remover help to prevent future scratches, too?

Not a big deal as it can be reapplied, but would be nice to know. I'll have to remember to buy this the next time I'm at the store, especially since it's only a couple bucks or so!

 

No, as no significant amount should remain on the slab after the polishing. I also have used it on my Tacoma headlights after many years of desert driving to clear the lens.

 

Ok, I couldn't find the one desertgem used, so instead I used Turtle Wax Scratch & Swirl Remover on my 1971 Ike OGP and it does its job. It was only $2.50 for an 11 oz bottle. I'm going to be using this on my Air-tites and Quadrum capsules, too, not just the slabs! I'm going to try it on my phone, too.



Before (scratches on plastic where coin is visible):




After (straight shot; smudge on plastic where scratches were can be cleaned off):



After (closeup and angled to enhance lighting):

 

You think it would work on this?

 

You bet. My choice is Turtle Wax Lens Clarifying Compound. The slab I was holding was horribly scratched. I am so anal now I polish most every slab I buy. A two dollar bottle will last forever. Don’t let the compound get on the TPG hologram. It will remove the hologram too.

 

Great! Thanks very much! I guess I can get it at any auto supply store?

 

Yep.

 

Now I am assuming that the photo you are showing is a TPG slab. I have never tried the stuff on acrylic like the Capital type holders. I don’t know if the result would be the same. I can only vouch for the TPG plastic.

 

Yes, it's an older soap bar ANACS slab.

 

I'll post the after results here when I finished.

@Collecting Nut

 

Sounds good!

 

Super necro thread @Islander80-83 were did you dig this one up? My only concern was posted before and that would be that the polishing product might somehow migrate to the coin after awhile. Those kind of products work by filling the scratches as well as polishing the surface I believe. That would therefore “leave” some of the product in excess on the outside of the slab in the recessed depths of the scratches. Give that and the possibility of an improper or incomplete ultrasonic weld and I could see the possibility of intrusion of the polishing product into the slab to have access to the coin!

It sure makes the slabs nice and pretty though!

Reed

 

I just try to find answers to my questions by search the forum first. It's not always easy. It seems to take me some time and digging to find what I'm looking for.

I know all the answers to my mostly menial questions are here somewhere. I just like to find them before having to post the question in a new thread.

So you think the polishing product might migrate through or into the slab to the coin???? Men, if I thought that could or ever possibly happen I wouldn't be doing it!!.....that's for sure!!

 

You would have to be mighty sloppy with the compound to get it into the welds of the slab. Remember how we used to spit shine our boots? We would put a dab of Kiwi on the tip of our old tee-shirt and go to work? Work the compound the same way. Don't slather the stuff on.

 

Yep, and that will never happen.

Exactly! And we used real spit!

Semper Fi!

 

Project to start shortly. I'm a coins and cars lover............never thought the two would mix!! We'll see what happens. I'll be practicing on some broken out slabs and some old plexiglass.

 

Just like a spit shine. A little compound. A lot of elbow grease.