Cleaning grotty downpipes - anything better than autoglanz?
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Presuming you have a drill. Go to Halfords and buy a small polishing attachment http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/power...
+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
Edited by theshrew on Saturday 3rd December 22:26
I've had lots of success with "Blue Job" a little goes a long way, bit of elbow grease needed but works well
http://blue-job.co.uk/
http://blue-job.co.uk/
theshrew said:
Presuming you have a drill. Go to Halfords and buy a small polishing attachment http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/power...
+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
You've done an excellent job on those.+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
Edited by theshrew on Saturday 3rd December 22:26
Someone on the forum recently had their headers vapour blasted and they looked as new , vapour blasting isnt a lot of money , I think ill be getting my VTR headers vapour blasted at some point.
Janluke said:
I've had lots of success with "Blue Job" a little goes a long way, bit of elbow grease needed but works well
http://blue-job.co.uk/
Might go well with a polishing brush on my drill http://blue-job.co.uk/
podman said:
theshrew said:
Presuming you have a drill. Go to Halfords and buy a small polishing attachment http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/power...
+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
You've done an excellent job on those.+ throw on some autosol and you can do most of it and it doesn't take that long. Maybe use a dermal for the fiddly bits.
What I didn't allow for was it flicking up the kitchen wall / celing
Before and after of my Yoshi's. It worked just as well on the de cat pipe to.
Edited by theshrew on Saturday 3rd December 22:26
Someone on the forum recently had their headers vapour blasted and they looked as new , vapour blasting isnt a lot of money , I think ill be getting my VTR headers vapour blasted at some point.
There is a fella around here that does polishing that's supposed to be good hes on twitter @MushtysPolishing
If you can be arsed removing the system from the bike (which is easier than the elbow grease required if keeping system on the bike) then media blasting is the way forward. I've tried Optiglanz, and it did work well, but still required huge amounts of effort (spray on and rinse off as stated on the bottle is a load of s
t). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.
This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
t). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
m9rko said:
If you can be arsed removing the system from the bike (which is easier than the elbow grease required if keeping system on the bike) then media blasting is the way forward. I've tried Optiglanz, and it did work well, but still required huge amounts of effort (spray on and rinse off as stated on the bottle is a load of st). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.
This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
Yours was the set I remembered, cant argue with that result for £40.t). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
cheesewotsit said:
Is that the same/similar to soda blasting? I've an SV650 I want to clean up and the exhaust system is a bit ropey. Don't want to spend a lot, but £40 is cheaper than a new system!
I have no idea. The place I went to did media or vapour blasting. He said vapour would have taken about 4-5 times as long. I think media blasting is tiny bits of sand & water?podman said:
m9rko said:
If you can be arsed removing the system from the bike (which is easier than the elbow grease required if keeping system on the bike) then media blasting is the way forward. I've tried Optiglanz, and it did work well, but still required huge amounts of effort (spray on and rinse off as stated on the bottle is a load of st). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.
This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
Yours was the set I remembered, cant argue with that result for £40.t). It also can't get rid of the most stubborn bits.This system cost me £40 to have media blasted (everything except the silencers). I don't have any before pics, but it's a 10 year old system that was very badly stained. Now it looks like new:
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