Acrylic baths chip repair?

Feb 01, 2004 8 Replies

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Anyone got any personal recommendations of a procedure and/or method.



I have a couple of very small (say 8mm*2mm*1mm deep) chips caused by the metal plug 'swinging' into the bottom of the bath I believe (it wasn't me guv).



I have seen this product but given the cost involved for such a minor repair I would like a recommendation before shelling out.



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TIA.


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If it is an acrylic bath, scratches can be polished out since it's the same material all the way through. Start with fine wet or dry used wet - say 600 first then 1200 to finish and finally polish with Brasso or an acrylic polish.

And change the plug to a rubber one. ;-)

Like I said it's a chip not a scratch so simply polishing will not really be appropriate. It will need filling even though small.

I think I may start to give the culprit plastic cutlery and cups too.

Well, you reckoned it was only 1mm deep, so I'd call that a deep scratch.

Nothing at all.

Ah. Its in the sig. Why did you post your message in the sig?

My error. I use the sig utility to insert "X-No-archive: yes" and usually delete the previous lines including "--"

There must be a better way but I'm not aware of it yet.

If you try to 'polish' out a 'scratch' or chip that deep I think you'd be polishing a pretty big area in order to disguise it or it would appear like a dent, and possibly become a water trap. I think I'd rather keep the repair more localised.

Thanks anyway.

Could be. It's just that I reckon a truely invisible filler repair unlikely, as well as costly.

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