How To Polish Stainless Steel Exhaust Pipes

Very common on motorbikes with stainless steel chrome or aluminium exhaust pipes it looks like liquid rust.

How to polish stainless steel exhaust pipes. Wait 2 to 4 hours for the exhaust to dry. KTM 890 Adventure 2021. Metal polish would obviously work better but this buffing compound worked fine in.

Advice from a magazine article which said to apply a thick coating of wheel bearing grease to the inside surface of the exhaust pipes and ride the bike for a few miles repeating if necessary. This blue color can be uniform in appearance but more frequently its uneven and sometimes its even spotty. Both can be re-chromed and re-buffed to restore to its former shinier state.

Manufactured from high grade 304 stainless steel with a polished finished body paired with an. The degreaser will act to break up interior carbon deposits and rust. Could somebody explain how you can polish stainless or point me to a link.

Is looking pretty good on the nicer areas but I cant get rid of the ugly rusted stuff near the exhaust flange close to the head where the pipe turns. On my old R1150 I eventually got tired of polishing the pipes heck it would take me anywhere from 3 to 5 hours to do them properly. Polishing Stainless Steel - Buffs and Compounds 2002.

Never do it on hot pipes always cold He says it can be used to clean all oxidation on stainless steel and chrome. I had a plastic bag cook on my exhaust pipe from the cylinder almost back to the cat. The idea was the wheel bearing grease would carbonize and insulate the chrome from the high exhaust temps.

Neil says some chrome pipes are plated under solution with no oxygen which is unstable. Discussion in The Garage. Wed Jun 24 2009 728 am.