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Plastic bag on exhaust headers
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:08 am
by stoney
A plastic bag blew on to my exhaust headers while parked yesterday - while they were still hot - and melted on them and has made right mess
Any tips how to get the mess off?
Andy
plastic bag
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:25 pm
by Ruffy
Maybe a lot of elbow work with solvol or duraglit stoney,it depends wether there chrome or a textured ally like mine are
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:28 pm
by Boxered
Andy, you could try alloy wheel cleaner or some other nasty acid like solution. I have some alloy wheel cleaner that I left a paint brush in overnight, absolutely no bristles left on it in the morning
just the wooden habdle and a very shiny metal bit.
Steve
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:28 pm
by Onebag
Looks to be some decent tips here:
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf99504511.tip.html
Good luck!
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:30 pm
by stoney
Seems to be coming off by re-heating and scrubbing..I guess a final polish will be required too - Ta for the tips.
Andy
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:33 pm
by Ade B
pan scourer on hot exhausts did the trick on mine - but then again they weren't mirror polished to start with...
Ade