G'day
This morning, as I took it off, I brilliantly let the lining of my jacket some into contact with the pipe header. I now have a lump of synthetic material fused to the header.
Can anyone help with suggestions for getting it off, please?
Cheers
(01-22-2014, 03:30 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]G'day
This morning, as I took it off, I brilliantly let the lining of my jacket some into contact with the pipe header. I now have a lump of synthetic material fused to the header.
Can anyone help with suggestions for getting it off, please?
Cheers
Try a steel wool soap pad, then metal polish.
(01-22-2014, 03:35 PM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: [ -> ] (01-22-2014, 03:30 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: [ -> ]G'day
This morning, as I took it off, I brilliantly let the lining of my jacket some into contact with the pipe header. I now have a lump of synthetic material fused to the header.
Can anyone help with suggestions for getting it off, please?
Cheers
Try a steel wool soap pad, then metal polish.
Thanks Pterodactyl. I hope that doesn't mean I'll have to do all the headers. Can't have one shiny one.
Nah, if you clean it like a saucepan you should be right. No need for polish if you like.
(01-22-2014, 04:02 PM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Nah, if you clean it like a saucepan you should be right. No need for polish if you like.
Excellent. I should have lifted some of it off with a stick or something when it was hot. I'm vaguely tempted to try reheating it and seeing if I can get some of it that way.
By the way, and unrelated, thanks for the advice about the AirHawk seat. It has made a big difference. I'll now have to get one for my wife for when she comes with me.
When I crashed the Griso the tank bag whipped off and the foam that sits against the tank melted on a header. Lot's of black crud melted on it.
Once the pipe got hot again it was easy peasy to remove and I hear most of it burned off. Used semi-chrome to buff up the rest so it would go back to that nice tan colour.
Don't use steel wool. Too abrasive. No 3M pads either.
Try some easy off oven cleaner, warm the pipe up first then spray on the cleaner,works for black heel marks too.
(01-23-2014, 12:35 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: [ -> ]When I crashed the Griso the tank bag whipped off and the foam that sits against the tank melted on a header. Lot's of black crud melted on it.
Once the pipe got hot again it was easy peasy to remove and I hear most of it burned off. Used semi-chrome to buff up the rest so it would go back to that nice tan colour.
Don't use steel wool. Too abrasive. No 3M pads either.
I have used the fine steel wool pads, impregnated with (pink) soap and the result was good. Then again, as I said in another thread, I am not a slave to the CB"s beauty
Cheers
(01-23-2014, 08:12 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: [ -> ] (01-23-2014, 12:35 AM)Rboe_imp Wrote: [ -> ]When I crashed the Griso the tank bag whipped off and the foam that sits against the tank melted on a header. Lot's of black crud melted on it.
Once the pipe got hot again it was easy peasy to remove and I hear most of it burned off. Used semi-chrome to buff up the rest so it would go back to that nice tan colour.
Don't use steel wool. Too abrasive. No 3M pads either.
I have used the fine steel wool pads, impregnated with (pink) soap and the result was good. Then again, as I said in another thread, I am not a slave to the CB"s beauty
Cheers
I have used the fine steel wool pads, impregnated with (pink) soap and the result was good. Then again, as I said in another thread, I am not a slave to the CB"s beauty
Cheers
Must have been the pink soap, Pterodactyl.
This has been instructive for me. Perhaps there are rules for seeking advice on forums. I don't know; this is the first one I've ever joined. What I've learned is:
[li]Ask the question.[/li] [li]Sit in front of the browser clicking refresh and hoping for an answer that doesn't make you feel like a complete moron for asking the question in the first place.[/li] [li]Get answer. be relieved you weren't mocked. Get excited and rush out and buy the product recommended.[/li] [li]Get home and check the instructions only to find that there's a new post(s) offering different solutions and suggesting the first one might not be the best.[/li] [li]Have a beer.[/li] [li]Have another beer.[/li] [li]Go back to point 5.[/li] [li]Next morning, if you can remember anything, review the post. Order the suggestions from least invasive to most invasive.[/li] [li]Implement, hoping like hell one of them works.[/li] [li]Have a beer.
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In this case, I'm delighted to report that, having run the engine for a minute or so, the headers were so hot the offending goop wiped off with a rag leaving no trace. That's partly because I have let them stay discoloured. I like the bike to look good, but cleaning is not one of my passions.
Thanks, everyone for your help. I appreciate your tolerance and support.
Really.
Cheers