"D.M. Procida" wrote in message
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I've got some plastic - the kind of plastic a hairdryer, or the main
body of an iron might be made of - and I need to smooth it to something
like its flawless moulded surface before I gouged one of the edges...

What will be a good way to do this? Very fine sandpaper? A very sharp
blade to pare off some sharp bits sticking out? Heated metal to smooth
it down?

Thanks,

Daniele


You won't get it back to a perfect finish. The acrylics and urethanes that these are
made from are mostly blow moulded and once cured the material changes character and
remains in the shape that the mould gave it. The only real way to make anything like
this smooth and perfect again is to lay another coating of the same or similar
material over it and fill in the broken sections underneath it.