I love the look of the shiny back case of the iPhone but it only takes a drop or a few weeks of rough use for your iPhone to get scratches all over its surface and lose its shiny luster.
If this has already happened to you, here is a DIY tutorial that can help your iPhone gets its shine back courtesy Shenaniganz08, member of MacRumors forums.
To do this, you will need:
- Sandpaper with 320, 800, 1000,1500, 2000, 3000 grit
- 3M Rubbing compound
- Machine Polisher ( Power Drill or small buffer)
- Microfibers
- Sticky tack and or tape
You can get most of these components with a 3M headlight restoration kit available at any car parts store. Please note that this process can permanently remove the scratch-resistant coating of the iPhone which would make it more vulnerable for scratches in future. Also, this process can permanently remove the Apple logo on your casing.
Step 1: Dry sand
Select a spot on your iPhone that has the maximum scratch and dry sand it with a sandpaper of the highest grit. If this does not remove the scratch mark, repeat with a sandpaper of a lesser grit. Continue the process with sandpapers of lesser grit till you are able to wipe off the scratch mark completely. Now, use this sandpaper to rub all along the surface of your iPhone casing. Remember to run along the surface in only one direction. Also, do not forget to cover your camera's glass lens to avoid scratching the glass lens.
Step 2: Wet Sand
Start with the sandpaper of the lowest grit and using very little water, rub over the surface in any particular direction. Once you have completed the process, repeat with a sandpaper of a higher grit but in a perpendicular direction. For instance, if you wet sand the casing with a 1000 grit sandpaper from left to right, follow it up with the 1500 grit sandpaper from top to bottom and so on.
Step 3: Polish
The final step is to polish the casing. However, before you proceed, remember to cover up your headphone port, volume buttons, vibrate button, camera lens and 30 pin dock with a sticky tack. Once done, polish the casing with the 3M rubbing compound on a power drill. Once the entire surface is polished, you may finish the process with a 3M rubbing compound using a microfiber.
Optionally, you may also follow it up with a blue 3M pad with Meguair's 205 paint polish and finish it with Meguair's NXT 2.0 wax.
This should help in getting your iPhone's shine back.
We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and let us know how it goes.
[via MacRumors]
f**k doing that – i would rather have scratches than lose the apple logo etc – it looks like a fake now! haha
Just buy a freakin case!
I agree. I'd rather have the apple logo. Plus, it's too much work anyway. Just buy a nice slim skullcandy case
I only bought the stupid thing for it's logo… Like HELLO
Who cares about the logo. You just wanna be a show off!
Cool. Finally a way to lose the twat logo.
I keep mine covered with a case from Zagg.com, they are a bit expensive but they do work. I use them on other things and am quite pleased.
wow thats dumb!!!!!!
Hei,
A few days ago i used displex display polish and the results were amazing.
I suggest to try displex first and you wont regret it. I had almoast the same scraches
as shoun in the comparison image. Its cheap as well
I bought two leather flip cases from Asda for £4 each, were £19.99 but reduced over an Xmas
Nice feel, secure belt clip (removeable) neck strap, and best of all, when closed it protects my screen
The cost of the grinding compounds doesn't work out cheap, and using my limited elbow grease reserve is a daunting task for a lazy arsed tw@t like me lol
For the morons out there, who say just buy a case, this is AFTER the back gets all fucked up and scratched.
Also, who gives a shit about the Apple logo?
Oooooooh, someones having a hissyfit!!
Yours all scratched up is it??
SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A CASE!!!!
Then you wouldn't get all bitter & twisted at people who think ahead, don't have scuffed up iPhones and CAN be cocky because of it.
4G comes out, I can sell as 100% mint, can you??
interesting
Who is going to beleive you that it 'was' an iphone
mwhahahahA
ITS A FUCKING tutorial. DO IT IF YOU WANT OR DONT. SSSSSSSSSSSSICK MAN ,,,SSSSSSSSSSICK !
might as well paint that sucker while you're at it…would be sweet to have a different color instead of these ffing black/white shit
good point , i mean black n white !wot the fuck apple,lets have a choice hehe
dude if you want the logo that bad get a cut out of it, im sure you can find it some were online and then spray paint it back on with some metalic silver paint. There brand new iPhone cant even tell its been refinished. And if you put some kind of clear coat on it afterwards you now have the scratch resistant coating back on too.
Yea idk fuck all this I bought the otter box and I love it it's bulky but every time I walk through the mall and some guy comes out of no where tryin to sell me a phone case or a poly coating I just look at them and spike my iPhone off the ground and ask them if their case can do that and that ussually shuts them up quik like and I've only pulled it out 2 times since last summer and it's still perfect
come on sheeple… who really cares about an apple logo? I think this is a great idea and luckily for me my dad owns a bathroom vanity fabricating shop so i have an abundance of every supply needed. Thanks for the walkthrough.
iphone it's expensive , so why didnt you care it?, but your metod is usefull for other devices which are made in the same material.
ps. buy an apple logo sticker
anyone ever think of taking a piece of and invisible shield or bodygaurdz and putting it over the apple logo and using an xacto blade to cut the shape of the logo and then sand it?
Hear hear lol, I can sell mine as vgc but its seven months old now, and when I'm set free hopefully soon I won't be wanting to sell anyway mate
hahahah fukin losers you all are
Once again posts show us that humans dont have long left on this world.
He'll ya… I hear ya there…
He'll ya… I hear ya there…
WTF