| Author | Message | ||
     Dentfixer |
A piece of plastic blew up and melted on my front header pipe. Tried Scotchbrite, works ok, but now it's smooth and lost it's "sand blasted" gold color. How can I bring back the finish of my stock pipe on my 06 XB12S?? | ||
| Slaughter |
Run it a couple hundred miles. I got almost exactly the same thing on my S3 stainless header and scotch-brited it and it took a few full heat cycles before it just disappeared. | ||
| Lost_in_ohio |
wd 40 and steel wool.....now real mild steel wool | ||
| Aesquire |
I do not suggest steel wool. If you must scrub, use stainless wool, to avoid grinding soon to be rust bits into grain of pipes, or, best bet, follow Slaughters advice. The gold color will be back shortly. | ||
| Lowlife |
Run it a couple hundred miles. Quoted for truth. Seriously, I had a plastic bag fuse itself to my header. It turned black and burned off after a few hours. I didn't dare scrub the coating on the header. I know this doesn't sound like the most desirable solution, but it works. | ||
| Kdan |
Coating on the header? I like to keep mine polished and started with 600 grit sandpaper. Now, I just use metal polish and "wet sand" with 1200 grit...Makes 'em nice and shiny! They stay chrome looking for about 70 miles. Then they go the correct coppery colour, but still nice and shiny! I like Shiny headers. | ||
| Brineusaf |
Right Kdan, Polished mine up as well, that coating was a pain. After some sanding and hand polishing it looks very nice. After a few heat cycles if returns to the shiny copper color, but shiny nonetheless. | ||
| Dentfixer |
Thanks people! Guess I'll take it out for a good long ride and burn it off. What's better than riding your Buell, right? | ||
| Kuuud |
FYI If it happens to anyone else...the safest, least damaging thing to use is OVEN CLEANER. Bret | ||
| Kuuud |
...ditto with chrome pipes too! | ||
| Thumper2811 |
always used Never Dull cleans everything out of all metals |
