Can you buff scratches out of a zirconium clip?

[jacksonboulder]

Does anyone have any experience removing scratches from a zirconium clip-on any zirconium material for that matter? Is there any polishing material or substance that could buff some small scratches out and return the black mirror finish?

Thanks for any thoughts!

 

[vorpalblade]

It might help if you could explain it better. What is a zirconium clip-on. Do you mean zirconia or Zr02? But zirconia is colorless and not black as you describe. Did you mean titanium?

 

[jacksonboulder]

Zirc clip similar to this.

 

[PiercedBill]

Can you take it off and polish it on a buffer? Or maybe use a dremel if you can't take it off. I would try white compound on a felt wheel first, but I think I remember reading somewhere that zirconium is very hard, so you might have to use diamond as a polishing media. Just my guess good luck!

 

[Jason B.]

Diamond compounds will be the only abrasive hard enough to polish such materials.

 

[Kingfisher 1]

Jewelers polish it will take scratches out of glass

 

[Fred S2]

Pure Zirconium metal is really soft, softer than pure Ti. If you have a clip make of zirc, it may be an alloy or maybe work hardened to make it a bit springy. Either way, anything that you would use to polish or sand any other metal with will be fine. The black part has me confused, Zirc looks a lot like Ti. You may have some kind of coating there.

 

[vorpalblade]

I'm guessing the clip isn't zirconium but probably stainless steel or titanium. If it's any of those three metals, it couldn't hurt to buff it with a quality metal polish.