Restore disfugred iPod with acetone (against better judgement)

Here is how you get your iPod from looking horribly disfgured to looking just kind of old.

So I found this iPod laying around. It was in bad shape, after putting in a new battery, it was still pretty horribly disfigured. Not only was it just scratched up, there were all these artistic patterns deliberately scratched into it. I imagine it didn’t turn out as expected since there is no instructable on it.

Before I tell you how to restore it, keep in mind that acetone is almost NEVER a good polishing or cleaning solution. It WILL dissolve plastic as soon as you put a drop on the surface and make anything it touches look like its been in a fire. In this case, however, it performed okay.

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Step 1: What you need

What you need:

* Acetone from home depot
* Microfiber cloth like for cleaning glasses
* Packing tape

The idea here is to use acetone and the microfiber cloth to get the plastic on the front of the ipod at least polished enough to look foggy.

You can see in the second photo that a layer of plastic with the deliberate scratches has been dissolved, polish it some more.