[Ti] Al-book scratch

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 13:43 +0200 26/4/04, Lisbeth Zachs wrote:
>2004-04-26 kl. 10.12 skrev Dr. Trevor J. Hutley:
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>>Some other metal (eg Titanium!!) you could polish it out.
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>Polish it out with what? I don't care much that my Ti-book shows 
>use, but I recently got a few irritating scraches on the right 
>handrest and I can feel it when working and would love to be able to 
>make that at least less noticable. :-)

Hey, I said I am a polymer specialist, not a metallurgist.

"Polish it out" means using an abrasive of the right size, and some 
careful and numerous hand movements.  It is possible to buy (for us 
ein metallurgical Labs) very very fine abrasive papers or cloths, 
which you could use with some lubricant oil, and careful polishing 
movements, amd then polishing 'creams' that contain very fine 
abrasive, to restore the gloss to the surface.  BUT this is what you 
can do on a metal surface, not on a painted surface.  I think the 
hand-rest area on the Ti was painted - is that right?  I would not 
try this appproach on a painted surface.

You might have in your possession an emery board (at least, all the 
females in my hosue have one) which normally has one fine surface.  I 
have sometimes borrowed one of these, to small polishing work on 
various surfaces (never so far on a Powerbook).  You might try very 
gently working with a fine emery board on one of your scratches, and 
see what happens.  Even on a painted surface, this might help.
These are just ideas, of how I would approach the issue as a 
materials scientist.

I should probably write a huge legal disclaimer at the end of this note.

Trevor