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Cleaning question - Cormanus - 01-22-2014
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
RE: Cleaning question - Pterodactyl_imp - 01-22-2014
(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.
RE: Cleaning question - Cormanus - 01-22-2014
(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.
RE: Cleaning question - Pterodactyl_imp - 01-22-2014
Nah, if you clean it like a saucepan you should be right. No need for polish if you like.
RE: Cleaning question - Cormanus - 01-22-2014
(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.
RE: Cleaning question - rboe - 01-23-2014
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.
RE: Cleaning question - Tripod_imp - 01-23-2014
(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.
True...
RE: Cleaning question - Obleo - 01-23-2014
Try some easy off oven cleaner, warm the pipe up first then spray on the cleaner,works for black heel marks too.
RE: Cleaning question - Pterodactyl_imp - 01-23-2014
(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
RE: Cleaning question - Cormanus - 01-23-2014
(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