[ilovemash]

Just picked up an acrylic tank for dirt cheap. It is a very nice tank, unfortunately it is somewhat scratched in various places. What can I do to buff the scratches out of the tank, if that is even possible?

[patrick1234]

most lfs sell a acrylic repare kit

[ilovemash]

cool, I mostly deal with glass so this acrylic thing is new to me!

[patrick1234]

i love it and at the same time i hate it

[ilovemash]

Why is that?

[stephaniesquires]

I tried the acrylic scratch kit - did not work well for me. made the big scratches less big, but made the area hazy.... Hope you have better luck...

[cbeatty]

My first piece advice: DO NOT use the scratch repair kit with the sand paper. I made that mistake on my old acrylic tank and spent three months of monotonous, frustrating sanding to polish the haze out. Then I ran across Novus (novuspolish). This stuff rules. Go to the hardware store and pick up two automotive buffer pads you can attach to a drill and use one each for the heavy scratch remover (Novus 3) and the other for the fine scratch remover (Novus 2), then do a final rub down with the Novus 2 to shine it up, then do the Novus 1 by hand. Make sure that the acrylic and cloth are super clean, otherwise you will find out quickly when they are not. Made my tank look practically like new. Well worth the investment and the stuff works for everything acrylic (car, storm doors, anything plastic). Only question I have is whether the tank is already filled with water. In that case, please disregard advice above and work with the sandpaper. That is, unless you want to polisht the exterior of the tank. Good luck.