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GameCube Jewel Polishing with Meguiar's Compounds

April 9, 20221 thread~1 min read
Polishing

Three GameCube jewels taken out of their consoles and run through cutting, polishing and finishing pads with the matching Meguiar's compounds, the same materials used on car paint. Not perfect, but a substantial improvement on the swirls and scratches.

Parts & Tools (3)

Meguiar's compounds

Car paint products, used here in three stages: Ultimate Compound (G17216) for the cutting pass, Ultimate Polish (G19216) for the polishing pass, and Ultimate Liquid Wax (G210516) to finish.

Pads

Three grades, 76.2mm across and 31.75mm thick, all of which run on a drill as well as on a polisher: the red compounding pad (M3CFP3), the yellow polishing pad (M3PFP3) and the grey finishing pad (M3FFP3).

Polishing tool

Meguiar's Dual Action System (G3500), a dual action head that chucks into an ordinary drill.

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August 25, 2026· Thread 1· 2 tweets

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Many moons ago, when I was still (only) a 3 GameCube man, I found out you could polish the GameCube jewels. So I took them out of the consoles and got to work on them, with some car polishing materials and pads I had, from Meguiar's. These are the before shots.

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These are the after shots. I ran them through the cutting, polishing and finishing pads, with the accompanying materials. While not perfect, the improvement was quite substantial I'd say.

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