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6/19/2025, 3:33:50 PM
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Firstly, learn to cut your nubs properly. It will be in 2 cuts, first use your work-horse nippers to cut the part off of the runner. Make this first cut about 1 cm away from the gate where the runner plastic meets the actual part.
Then, using a nice pair of nippers that cut well. Make a second cut closer to the part leaving maybe about 1mm of gate plastic. (If you have god hands or any single bladed nipper you can go flush to the part at this point)
Then take a fresh hobby knife blade and lightly run it over the gate plastic, with a fresh blade you'll feel it bite in the moment you get to the gate plastic and you can feel it cut in. Be careful here not to gouge out any plastic as it's a LOT harder to add back rather than take away, but can be done if you want a perfect finish without painting.
Once you've gotten the part close to done, you may be left with a little mark around where the gate meets the plastic. This is where sanding comes into play. If it's a flat part, use a flat sanding stick, if it's a curved part use a sanding sponge (Both of these setups will be like $10ish at your local hobby shop for nice stuff that will last you a while). Wet sand on your sponges to make them last longer.
Then go through your grits, 400-2000. I recent got the god hand sponges and they actually come with 120grit to 10,000 grit so I definitely keep using up until 10,000 to get a perfect finish, but may not use the lower grits if just a bit of cleanup is needed.
Glass files are also reccomended as even compared to the 10,000 grit they still provide a closer finish to matching the plastic. There you have it, with these 4-5 steps you can remove all your nub marks perfectly.
All of these steps will be required for more troublesome nubs. But you may find on really easy nubs you get a good cut on that it just needs a quick polich.
Firstly, learn to cut your nubs properly. It will be in 2 cuts, first use your work-horse nippers to cut the part off of the runner. Make this first cut about 1 cm away from the gate where the runner plastic meets the actual part.
Then, using a nice pair of nippers that cut well. Make a second cut closer to the part leaving maybe about 1mm of gate plastic. (If you have god hands or any single bladed nipper you can go flush to the part at this point)
Then take a fresh hobby knife blade and lightly run it over the gate plastic, with a fresh blade you'll feel it bite in the moment you get to the gate plastic and you can feel it cut in. Be careful here not to gouge out any plastic as it's a LOT harder to add back rather than take away, but can be done if you want a perfect finish without painting.
Once you've gotten the part close to done, you may be left with a little mark around where the gate meets the plastic. This is where sanding comes into play. If it's a flat part, use a flat sanding stick, if it's a curved part use a sanding sponge (Both of these setups will be like $10ish at your local hobby shop for nice stuff that will last you a while). Wet sand on your sponges to make them last longer.
Then go through your grits, 400-2000. I recent got the god hand sponges and they actually come with 120grit to 10,000 grit so I definitely keep using up until 10,000 to get a perfect finish, but may not use the lower grits if just a bit of cleanup is needed.
Glass files are also reccomended as even compared to the 10,000 grit they still provide a closer finish to matching the plastic. There you have it, with these 4-5 steps you can remove all your nub marks perfectly.
All of these steps will be required for more troublesome nubs. But you may find on really easy nubs you get a good cut on that it just needs a quick polich.
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