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Mike_bolts
| Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 12:29 pm: |
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I was washing the bike when my mit got caught under the XB logo on the fly screen and pulled it off halfway. I dried the bike and decided to remove it all the way... ...and then (not thinking) I used Goof Off to remove the sticky part. Now my beautiful City X fly screen is blemished. I tried turtle wax to buff it out. Any ideas? Many thanks. |
Bomber
| Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 12:38 pm: |
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NOVUS Plastic Polishes come in 3 grades, and can do a great job when combined witha patience and elbow grease wax won't remove any (or, at least not much) material, which is what you need to do to "remove" a blemish (actually lowering the surrounding material to the bottom of the blemish) -- 3M also makes great stuff, I've heard reported, but I've not used em -- NOVUS does do a great job |
Cataract2
| Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 05:49 pm: |
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Try Novus first, if that doesn't work there's some stuff made by S100 that works very very well also. If all else fails you might be buying a new fly screen. They cost about $70 something. |
Tq_freak
| Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 06:17 pm: |
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I third that on using the NOVUS, had belt buckle scratchs on the back of the air box cover and it worked wonders, start with step 2 and then go to step 1....if you need step 3 NOVUS, replace the flyscreen. |
Easinc
| Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 09:35 pm: |
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Mine started to come off my prior bike on its own....Took the fly screen to the dealer. They put a new one on free of charge and it was good as new! |
Rpmchris
| Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 07:41 pm: |
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Just pulled mine off and cleaned it. Looks good without anything on it at all! |
Vaneo1
| Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:33 am: |
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Hey Chris what do you use to shine the plastic? Sorry not hijacking thread just borrowing it. Ill give it back... I promise |
Buellblastrider
| Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 10:42 pm: |
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not trying to hijack the thread either but i am curious about the clutch and brake lever on rpmchriss xb |
Diablobrian
| Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 11:36 pm: |
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crg makes them. Americansportbike, Ironmachine, Trojan, Hillbilly-Motors, and of course DaveS at appleton can set you up with a pair. |
Stou
| Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 11:59 am: |
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Mike, the best way to get back the shine of the part is to buff it using a buffer and compound. If you don't have a buffer, any body shop can do it for you for a couple of $. It's a 15 minutes job for somebody with experience in buffing. If you was not located so far from where I live, I'll do it for you but you are kind of very far from Quebec. |
Mike_bolts
| Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 04:42 pm: |
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Many thanks all. I am going to try the Novus with my orbital buffer and see where that takes me. I'll let you know how it turns out... |
Rpmchris
| Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:24 am: |
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I don't use anything special (Harley Sunwash, Harley Shine spray). I just clean it often with a soapy mit. And the CRG levers are fantastic. |
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