{"id":390666,"date":"2010-03-04T21:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5486058"},"modified":"2010-03-04T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:20:15","slug":"how-to-heroically-salvage-a-scratched-up-iphone-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390666","title":{"rendered":"How To: Heroically Salvage a Scratched-Up iPhone [Guides]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>One drop. Five minutes in a pocket with your keys. Three months of regular use<\/em>. This is all it takes for an iPhone’s backplate to go from a mirror-like shine to a scratched-to-hell eyesore. Here’s how to<\/a> fix it.<\/p>\n

MacRumors forum member Shenaniganz08<\/a> salvaged an iPhone 3G from eBay, sanding, buffing and polishing it back from the brink of a life in a case, which would be dumb, because cases are dumb.<\/em> (I mean, not really, but that’s kind of the premise of this whole process, right? Anyway.) Here’s what you need:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Sandpaper 320(or 500),800,1000,1500,2000,2500,3000 grit
\n\u2022 3M Rubbing compound
\n\u2022 Machine Polisher ( Power Drill or small buffer)
\n\u2022 Microfibers
\n\u2022 Sticky tack and or tape<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What’s great about this is that you don’t need to buy almost anything. Half the stuff you need—the microfibers, the polishing disc and the rubbing compound—is included in a $15 3M headlight restoration kit<\/a> , and you can use just about any crappy household drill for the buffing stage.<\/p>\n

In any case, the results are stunning, and the documentation meticulous<\/a>, so if you’ve got a few hours, a few bucks and an iPhone that looks like a piece of shitty sea glass, why not? [Macrumors<\/a> via Gadget Lab<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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One drop. Five minutes in a pocket with your keys. Three months of regular use. This is all it takes for an iPhone’s backplate to go from a mirror-like shine to a scratched-to-hell eyesore. Here’s how to fix it. MacRumors forum member Shenaniganz08 salvaged an iPhone 3G from eBay, sanding, buffing and polishing it back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}