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Anyone familiar with the 3m marble restoration system? It consists of 5" trizact diamond pads, 20" scotchbrite purple diamond floor pads, and scotchgard stone protector. Thanks in advance.
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I am not familiar with this one in particular. However...



EVERY "system", "procedure", "monkey", "easy", etc I have every seen is not worth
the money and lacks the true end result that the customer is looking for.
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What He said.
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Did some research. Looks like they use diamond abrasive pads. Then apply this stone protector which looks like a glorified floor finish. It is applied with microfiber pad and burnished to a high gloss. Burnished raised a flag with me because i have never burnished a stone floor and don't believe you are supposed to which says their system is a topical rather than a natural polish. Just asking for info because i'm going up against a company that is using this system for a very low price and i want to do it he correct way with diamond pads. Thanks for the replies.
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3M has been trying for years to get something that works.

I tried a couple of their earlier systems, including "never rust" buffing pads designed for crystallizer in the early 90s and another system a few years ago that used diamond pads.

Trizact film was first used to polish glass and acrylic. They used to polish airplane glass with it. It was an abrasive sheet like sand paper. Thousands of little triangular pyramids on the sheet. It is supposed to wear more evenly than silicon carbide so it can polish crystals and other material at a cheaper faster rate than diamonds. They had three grits then an abrasive polishing pad.

Not sure if this info helps. That's all I know about 3M, except for Post-its and Scotch Tape.
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Thanks Ted. Lol. I have a problem treating stone floor like VCT.
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No topicals on Marble. No one system will polish all marbles properly - too many different marbles.
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Thanks Ted. Lol. I have a problem treating stone floor like VCT.
No problem. I agree.
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