Topic: FLITZ metal polish is amazing for removing bluing from stainless steel exhaust pipes

[Pielz]

My neighbor let me try this stuff to remove the bluing on my Delkevic SS pipes from back when it was running a little lean. It says you just wipe it on, wait 3 minutes, and rub it with a paper towel and it seriously took maybe a minute or two of rubbing and the blue just melted off. Thought I'd share it with you guys! Anyone else find any good, easily available chemicals for cleaning up exhaust pipes?

[754]

You should  see what that does to dull black frame paint on a SOHC Honda..

[Pielz]

You should  see what that does to dull black frame paint on a SOHC Honda..

Yeah? It says it's a paint restorer!

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Is that an abrasive treatment or a chemical treatment?

[jakec]

Hot or cold pipes?

[Pielz]

Is that an abrasive treatment or a chemical treatment?

Chemical it would appear

[Pielz]

Hot or cold pipes?

Cold!

[Medyo Bastos]

You outta see what it does to grillz




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[Pielz]

Hahahah

[gpzkat]

My Suzuki had really badly tarnished stainless header, tried several methods (Barkeeper's friend and red scotchbrite for example), and tons of elbow grease, in the end I resorted to 1500/2000/2500 grit wet sand, then a final polish with Flitz.  Hope it stands up to use, probably could be better.

 About halfway through 1st pic showing what I started with, then pre-polishing in 2nd, then mounted in 3rd. 

[Pielz]

Wow that bike is beautiful! Looks fast those headers polished up beautifully

[grcamna2]

That must have taken hours,nice job.

[Medyo Bastos]

That looks great!


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[754]

Scotchbrite on Chrome, that will dull it..  you made it look a bit like Jet Hot coating...
SOLVOL Autosol is abrasive as I found out trying to remove a water spot on a brand new pipe..
 FLITZ,  does NOT  seem ABRASIVE, seems to chemically loosen  oxidization.
 But what it does to some paint... amazing. .

[gpzkat]

It's stainless not chrome on the header and mid pipe, so it's back to its natural state, pretty much.

I was reading in the tech tips about refreshing frames with Penetrol and saw your post about the Flitz.  On the GS I used VHT roll bar paint, which worked great, but on the CB I will try to refresh it chemically to see how it goes.  Not sure I can even buy the Penetrol here in CA.  How much Flitz do you use to do a frame?  Seems it could get expensive.

Scotchbrite on Chrome, that will dull it..  you made it look a bit like Jet Hot coating...
SOLVOL Autosol is abrasive as I found out trying to remove a water spot on a brand new pipe..
 FLITZ,  does NOT  seem ABRASIVE, seems to chemically loosen  oxidization.
 But what it does to some paint... amazing. .

[Pielz]

I didn't use a ton of it on my exhaust. To be fair I only had to put like a medium coat on the first few inches of my exhaust but it's a thick paste. Seems like it'd go pretty far. Maybe 2 tubes of it for the whole frame. Maybe less. It spreads farther than I thought it would. Each exhaust pipe only really needed like 1 - 2 pea sized drops.

I didn't buy it only borrowed but it looks to be about 9 dollars at Wally world.

[gpzkat]

Now I'm on to the '73 CB750 project.  I'm a glutton for punishment, it needs way more than the Suzuki did, overall.

That must have taken hours,nice job.

[MauiK3]

Nice header, I see tons of elbow grease!!