How To Remove Melted Plastic From Chrome Exhaust Pipe

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How to remove melted plastic from chrome exhaust pipe. Moto27 Sep 29 2011 1. Then coat the exhaust with your preferred chrome treatment. Joined Aug 7 2010 Messages 315 Location Toronto Ontario Canada Ride 2020 Rocket 3 GT Jun 18 2011 1 No offence to my wife but.

I tried the home remedies using Easy Off oven cleaner while pipes are hot Goof Off when pipes are cold finger nails and I cant seem to get it off. Asking for a friend. After a 1000 mile trip I had plastic from one of the luggage straps that had melted onto the anodized muffler FMF Q4 on my bike.

From what I can tell the 0000 steel wool doesnt scratch chromeOven cleaner is only marginally effective. I never tried this on my ST pipes but on a previous bike with chrome pipes I had good results by heating up the pipes a bit and then repeatedly using chrome cleaner and polish comes in. Ive used it to remove melted microfibre towels and rubber from hot pipes.

I had some shoe plastic melt onto my samson pipes once. I heard that if you soak a sock in WD-40 and leave it on the exhaust overnight or for a couple hours then scrub it with a damp cloth the stuff comes. Aug 1 2011 Oddometer.

The only thing that took it off was Turtle Wax Chrome Polish and Rust Remover affil. Heres a list of products that didnt work. This is a useful tip for anyone whos ever accidentally touched the rubber on their shoe rain pants or any other meltable material to their burning hot motorcycle pipes.

Melted plastic removal. Discussion in The Garage started by moto27 Sep 29 2011. His wife accidentally got off the motorcycle and put her jacket on the seat and it slid off and melted to the pipes.