Doesn't work. Polycarbonate is a hopless material to polish. You can make i=
t
a bit glossy with car wax.
The best is to treat it now and then with synthetic car-wax, without cuttin=
g
rubbing. It protects it a little from micro-scratches.
Klas.
At 16:24 2002-11-05 -0000, you wrote:
>Have you tried buffing the damage out with a soft cloth and tooth
>paste? I have not tried this with a telinga but use it for other
>soft plastics.
>
>Rich Peet
>
>--- In Doug Von Gausig <> wrote:
>> At 07:37 AM 11/5/2002, Klas wrote:
>> >Up north, in Lapland, the Swedish Army made mosquito repellent
>tests a few
>> >years ago. Among a few other ways, they found the by far most
>efficient to
>> >be large quantities of yeast-pills.
>> >
>> >DO NOT!!! use any mosquito spray on the Telinga dish! The strong
>detergents
>> >make it milky and weak.
>>
>> I use DEET sprays all the time in Costa Rica - couldn't do without
>them.
>> I'm careful not to get the DEET directly on anything made of
>plastic, but
>> the dish occasionally rubs against my arm or sweaty hand, and it
>does
>> discolor it. Not so severely, though, that it is unusable - just
>softens
>> the view through it!
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Doug Von Gausig
>> Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
>> Moderator
>> Nature Recordists e-mail group
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
>>
>>
>>
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