Repair Report
So, after a bit of research online, I came across a procedure which incorporates the use of whitening toothpaste, and some elbow grease. Here is a little DIY of my results.
Before any work. Look at that scratch laughing at me. :cursin:
1. Are you like Richard Hammond and have whitening toothpaste at your disposal, grab it. From what I read whitening is preferred since it is slightly abrasive.
2. Put the toothpaste on your finger, and rub into scratch Don't use buffing pad, unless it is microfiber. Also, have a clean, damp microfiber towel on standby to clean off toothpaste.
3. wipe off toothpaste and check to see how much of the scratch has been removed. You may noticed small scratches now since the toothpaste is slightly abrasive.
4. After a few coats, the scratch was still visible. However, I could not feel it with my finger nail anymore. What I decided to do what use a buffing wheel from my dremel, and attach it to my cordless drill. I used my cordless drill since it is a much lower speed than my dremel, and did not want to heat up the plastic too much.
5. I then rubbed toothpaste back on the scratch and buffed it for around a min, going back and forth slowly over the scratch. Don't stay in one spot too long since you may heat up the plastic which will warp it.
6. You can now roughly see the fine scratches the toothpaste left behind, and the scratch is slowing disappearing.
After about 10 applications of toothpaste/buffing.
The scratch is slowly disappearing, however, I wanted to speed up the process. So I found Meguiars fine-cut cleaner compound, and used this for a few applications to speed up the process. Be careful if you use a cutting compound as it can damage the plastic because of the abrasive materials inside.
This is the scratch after about 5 applications of the cleaner using buffer pad.
Notice how the scratch is almost gone, yet you can still see the shadow of the scratch from the light. I noticed without the light, I could not see the scratch.
