| Author | Message | ||
     Dfbutler |
It was windy yesterday and one of those plastic grocery bags was blowing across the road. It blew in front of my bike and I thought it just blew past. When I got home there was a smell like something was burning. Turns out the bag blew against the headers and melted on to them. Any suggestions on getting the melted plastic off? | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
Just run it and it will eventually burn/flake off. Or you could try a product called "Goop". | ||
| Interex2050 |
Ron is right... Don't worry about it will just burn off, unless there is enough on there to be a fire hazard... If so it should be thick enough to grab and "peel" off. | ||
| Crusty |
You could try Easy Off oven cleaner. Just be VERY careful where you spray it. It can eat paint, and mess up other finishes. As far as burning off; sometimes, melted plastic bags turn into a hard crusty mess that stays for thousands of miles. | ||
| Adrenaline_junkie |
I melted my backpack on my header once. I scraped the big chunks off and then used emery cloth to finish removing any residue from the header. It did make a shiny spot on the header for a short period of time but it turned back to the gold/bronze color after a few spirited rides. | ||
| Steve_mackay |
Yup, it'll be there a while. My TT was 2 weeks old when I hit one of them plastic bags. You can still see some where it was on the pipe 6K miles later. | ||
| Etennuly |
Since the pipe is stainless you should be able to scrape off the thick stuff and wire brush it. The small wheel on a drill should do it. The stainless pipe will return to its gold patina in a short time. | ||
| Mxer83 |
how about some fine grade steel wool ? | ||
| Xbrfirebolt |
You don't want to use steel wool on stainless steel. It can leave tiny pieces of steel in the stainless that will rust. You can use a scotch brite pad. (Message edited by xbrfirebolt on March 19, 2008) | ||
| Spiderman |
then use stainless steel wool... | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Just think yourself lucky it wasn't some of Spidey's web, that stuff is HELL to clean off.  | ||
| Spiderman |
:THWIP: :SPLAT: TEHE | ||
| Mxer83 |
xbrfirebolt, I did not know that I guess a scotchbrite pad will be the way to go | ||
| Speedfreaks101 |
Adrenaline_junkie & Steve_mackay are 100% right. I also got my backpack (actually the Buell bag that was a free give away) on the header. I let it burn off and figured it would "wear off". Not so. It made a stain that was on the surface of the pipe. I had to use emory cloth on the pipe and get it back into shape (about 4000 miles later). BTW Spidey, stainless wool is rather hard to come by. I had to order mine from Briwax because I could not buy it local. http://www.briwax-online.com/sswool.html | ||
| Nillaice |
just wrap the pipes. you know you wanna anyways!  |
