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Go get the Trim brand 3-board nail care set at Walmart ($2), and you can polish that out in less than 2 minutes. No muss, no fuss. I do it all the time.

Here's what you're looking for. Notice the site says "no longer available" but I don't know if that just means for web-ordering or if it's been discontinued again (they were gone for a couple years, and then reappeared). Might want to check your local Wally's and see if there are still any in stock. I'm gonna try to grab a couple more of them if I can, that's how much I like these things.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Trim-Nail-Care-Buffing-System-3-pc/10414122

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Yeah, I checked a few of the stores around here and didn't have any luck finding them...I'll probably just get them on Amazon but they're defiantly more expensive.

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Check at any nail or beauty salon, they will have similar stuff. I have a ton of those 100 grit long sanding boards I bought in quantity at a local Sally's.

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I'm telling you, those Trim nail sticks will do just as good a job, and a lot faster and with less mess. I wouldn't believe it either, if someone told me that, but I'm here to tell you that I've done it. And continue to do it all the time. B)

And when you are done with the window, you can do your nails:P Seriously, I use them as well, and have for years. I've also used the Novus polishing system for plastics. I have the number #2 - fine scratch remover. 

 

Cheers,

Lance

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My Wally's had four of them left on the wall this morning. I bought them all.

Last time they discontinued these, they were gone for two or three years. I've seen similar things in nail salons and hobby shops, but everything else either doesn't work as well or costs three times as much, or both.

Snake's Law: If you find something you like or that really works for you, stock up, because they'll soon stop making it.B)

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My Wally's had four of them left on the wall this morning. I bought them all.

Last time they discontinued these, they were gone for two or three years. I've seen similar things in nail salons and hobby shops, but everything else either doesn't work as well or costs three times as much, or both.

Snake's Law: If you find something you like or that really works for you, stock up, because they'll soon stop making it.B)

You wouldn't be willing to trade a set of those for some parts maybe? Anything you're in need of?

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Snake's Law: If you find something you like or that really works for you, stock up, because they'll soon stop making it.B)

My wife and I swear that they watch us on camera and quit carrying stuff we like.

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You wouldn't be willing to trade a set of those for some parts maybe? Anything you're in need of?

I'm thinking about it. Will PM you if I can think of anything. B)

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Future may not be cheap, but I've been working out the same bottle for a dozen years or more. Maybe next week I'll show my latest project. I installed the windows today. Before I dipped them in Future, they looked like  they'd been rolling around in a box of gravel for 30 years. All it took to bring them to a showroom shine was a rinse at the sink, letting them dry, then one "treatment" and drying for a day. And I attached them with CA, no worries.

But that's what works for me. The guys at the car modelling club in town thought there was some special trick to this. There's not. And that $7 purchase all those years ago has gone into a few hundred model kits by now.

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My wife and I swear that they watch us on camera and quit carrying stuff we like.

That makes three of us then. LOL drives me crazy when I go back to find something they no longer carry, many stores. 

Colby just look for a Sally's by you, they carry many things you can use in our hobby. Not just sanding boards.   

http://stores.sallybeauty.com/

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Another vote for Sally's -that is where I get my multi-grit polishing boards.  They also sell acrylic resin powder and liquid hardener (used for artificial nails) which can be used for lots of hobby applictions. And non-acetone nail polish remover in gallon containers.

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