Quote Originally Posted by zuess View Post
I love the look of of bare aluminum too, but look at the pic below with all those fine scratches.
The panels were fine until I started cleaning them with paper towels, I now only use micro-fibre cloths.




If I could find a way to remove all the fine scratch marks i would consider leaving it bare.

Thanks for your comments everyone.

Yah, the 4'x8' panel I got has a ton of scratches. Think yours looks pretty prestine compared to that, but I got it for free so hard to complain

You can try brushing the aluminum, looks pretty easy

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=114028


although the edge will come out a bit more stand-out looking.