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| | | hogeyphenogey | | Set |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 21/02/2010 | | Posts | : | 461 | | Location | : | Chicopee, Mass, United States |
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| | Posted : 25 Oct 2014 - 20:16 Post title : Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust | | | Anyone have any tricks for removing melted rain gear from black exhaust? Not chrome exhaust, but black exhaust?
Got a nice, crusty mess on the side, and I know some people use oven cleaner on chrome, but how do you care for a black exhaust?
Help!
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| | | essbjay | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/02/2012 | | Posts | : | 328 | | Location | : | Melbourne (ex Lowestoft, UK), VIC, Australia |
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| | Posted : 26 Oct 2014 - 07:27 Post title : Re: Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust (Re: hogeyphenogey) | | |
Usually it means going to the extremes... either cooling/freezing the remains till they become brittle and can be broken or picked off...... or reheating till the remains burns/vapourises off...
Searching the web bings up acetone as something that has worked but that seems to have been on chrome or ally not the black finish. Also ammonia, on paper towels soaking the melted plastic, also seems to have worked.
Oven cleaners also work but again have even left marks in the chrome let alone the black coating.
I'd do a test on the underside of the pipe before cleaning a visible area if using any of the solvents...... and I'd try freezing it first..
All the best 
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| | | hogeyphenogey | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 21/02/2010 | | Posts | : | 461 | | Location | : | Chicopee, Mass, United States |
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| | Posted : 26 Oct 2014 - 13:44 Post title : Re: Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust (Re: essbjay) | | | I just used a can of compressed air to freeze the spot. I used about a 1/3 of the can... Nothing.
I don't know if the pipes are ceramicoated or powdercoated. I tried looking up the info online, but the website for Cobra sucks.
This is killing me! I feel so stupid for not thinking about this possibly happening. On my tbird, the pipes were down low. On my new bike, they are much higher. Never rubbed on the triumph.
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| | | mat1600 | | Thunderbird | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 26 Oct 2014 - 15:34 Post title : Re: Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust (Re: hogeyphenogey) | | |
hogeyphenogey wrote:
but the website for Cobra sucks.
This is killing me! I feel so stupid for not thinking about this possibly happening. On my tbird, the pipes were down low. On my new bike, they are much higher. Never rubbed on the triumph. |
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That'l teach you to swap bikes. 
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| | | Hankster | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 13/10/2012 | | Posts | : | 100 | | Location | : | Somerset & Wilts, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 28 Oct 2014 - 19:49 Post title : Re: Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust (Re: hogeyphenogey) | | | Hey Hogey
Go to your local plumbing store and get a can of "Arctic Freeze". Plumbers use it to freeze live water pipes so they can work on them. Freezes stuff to minus brass monkies !! Better than CO2..
Good luck
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| | | hogeyphenogey | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 21/02/2010 | | Posts | : | 461 | | Location | : | Chicopee, Mass, United States |
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| | Posted : 28 Oct 2014 - 20:39 Post title : Re: Melted rain gear on BLACK exhaust (Re: Hankster) | | | I'll try that in the future, but last night I dropped it off to have the rear muffler Powdercoated. Funny thing- from the factory, the pipes match but the muffler cover is a little lighter- according to the powdercoater, their color will match the pipes.
all in all, if that's the case, then in some odd way this is a win!
(telling myself this makes the $150 mistake easier to palate...)
Anyhow, I didn't think that removing the exhaust, coating, then reinstalling for $150 was too bad.
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