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Originally Posted by luu78

2000 grit is not fine enough and will require excessive compound buffing. Find a small new pc of acrylic and buff the 2000 grit like you did on your tank and then compound buff like you did and compare results. If the haze is the same size then you need to go finer or more compound buffing. If theres no haze on the sample acrylic then you missed some courser prior steps. I have the Lifeguard Scratch Removal Kit by LifeGard Aquatics way back when and it goes up to 12,000 grit. Here's a pic of the kit. Hope this helps




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If using a machine to buff things out, I would go to at least 6000 grit prior to using the machine buffer. Heck, if it were me, I would likely go up higher than that just to minimize the polishing effort.

I would suggest going to youtube and finding some videos on color sanding and polishing automotive paint. Particularly clear coat safe processes. You don’t need to use the Novus system but Novus, 3,2,1 work well too. You ultimately kind of want to treat it like a car paint and the higher the grade of wet sandpaper you use, the less effort required during the polishing process. You can get micro mesh sand paper all the way up to 12,000 grit.