Melted Plastic on Chrome

RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Heather M. (Guest Post) I tried both the blue can and the yellow can of oven off. I left the blue on twice for ten minutes a piece. That didn't work, so I switched to the "Heavy Duty" yellow can. I left that on for another ten minutes and it started to come off. It isn't all off yet, but it was pretty thick. I am hoping a couple more applications and it will all be off! Thanks so much to everyone. You saved me from buying new pipes! Posted on 02/06/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Kevin W. (South Africa). (Guest Post) My NEW bike (Roadstar 1700) with only 50km on the clock. Eager to keep my bike really clean, I used a detailer cloth on the bike's hot pipes directly after riding. Being mostly polyester, the cloth just clung to the pipes leaving a large brown melted stain. After finding this website, I tried oven cleaner on a damp cloth with the bike idling to ensure the pipes remain hot. To my amazement, with a bit of rubbing, and not even that hard, I was able to remove the entire stain with no damage to the pipes. Many thanks for this tip. Posted on 01/11/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Rodney J. (Guest Post) E-Z Off did the trick in cleaning the plastic off my Chrome Rinehart without any damage to the Pipes. Followed the instruction from one of article and it worked fairly easy. Thank you, RJ Posted on 11/28/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By (Guest Post) Easy off really works. I tried it. I removed 100% of melted backpack material on my exhaust pipe. Thanks to this website. Posted on 10/18/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Sean (Guest Post) I just got back from Bike Week in Key West and while there I had a plastic shopping bag melt to my pipes. I was told to use Paint lacqer thinner. I`ll try the Easy Off tonight and let you guys know if it worked for me. Otherwise, I`ll try the paint thinner. Posted on 09/22/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Dan (Guest Post) I tried oven cleaner on my chrome exhaust to remove plastic deposits left from my bike cover that had melted onto the hot exaust. It was so abrasive that it left swirl marks when I went to wipe it off. How do I polish the chrome again? Posted on 08/26/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By (Guest Post) Ok, I love sites like this. I had use a microfiber towel a little too soon and melted some of it on my pipes. I followed the advice of using oven off because my wife is not here and I don't know where her nail polish remover is but did find the oven off. I did not spray it directly onto the pipes. I sprayed it first onto a damp rag to prevent over spray from getting on the other parts of my bike. I used the rag to wipe the oven off onto the pipes and waited a couple of minutes. I had to use a little rubbing but the pipes came clean after a couple of minutes of rubbing. Posted on 07/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Evolution2001 (Guest Post) I found out that a microfiber towel is not actually cloth, but a plastic of sorts. I went to wipe down my hot exhaust and melted the cloth to the exhaust. Acetone did absolutely nothing on it's own. I used very fine steel wool ('000') used for polishing surfaces. After some aggressive rubbing, it came off the chrome and didn't leave any scratches or swirlmarks. I did this while the pipes were cold. FYI, a hairdryer doesn't get hot enough to melt heavy plastics or rubbers that are on exhaust pipes. (Exhaust gasses are MUCH hotter than a hairdryer can get.) Either run the bike and let the pipes heat up normally or use a heat gun. Posted on 06/12/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Fast Eddie (Guest Post) Well I got some great advice of this site. Ez Off oven cleaner did the trick... who would have thought. Posted on 02/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Gus (Guest Post) The Acetone nail polish didn't do anything. I used Easy OFF. I turned on the motorcycle and after about 5-10 minutes it was really rubbing off. My motorcycle PVC cover melted on it. It was so thick i couldn't even scratch it off with a key just to even test. I had to keep re-heating up the bike and use Easy Off constantly scrubbing for about 45 minutes. I got about 98% of it off. Easy off is super useful. Thanks for your advice guys! Posted on 01/29/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Stu (Guest Post) Use a product put out by Homax called OOPS it's available in hardware stores. Just used it and it took five minutes to get my rain gear cleaned off the pipes. Posted on 08/25/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Michelle (Guest Post) My dad did the same thing to my bike. He melted his nylon jogging pants to my pipe. I had this big brown burnt spot on my pipe. While the bike was really hot we used a towel and tried to wipe the burnt stuff off. A lot came off but what was left turned into a dull smeared mark across my whole pipe. I bought something called Road Rub. You can get it online too. It looks like a travel size deoderant. You just rub it on the marks and it takes it right off. It took some elbow grease and 2 sticks to get it off my bike but it was worth it. Hope this helps! Posted on 07/23/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Serhan Yengulalp (Guest Post) Easy-Off (blue canister) took it off after leaving on the spot for 2 hours. Thanks... Posted on 01/07/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Plissken (Guest Post) I had the same type of problem with an entire plastic bag melted onto one of my Mustang's exhaust pipes. The easy cure: Easy-off oven cleaner! Let the pipe heat up by idling the engine. Shut the engine off and spray the EZ-off on the stain. Wait a minute or so. It should wipe right off with a damp cloth. Warning!: This stuff is very caustic. Make sure you cover any painted surfaces or coated metal. Also, do not try this in windy weather and protect your eyes. It worked for me. Posted on 09/25/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By lucy (Guest Post) this is still alot of work...not all of the plastic wants to come off...should the exhaust be cold like this or warm it up? Posted on 09/24/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By the Oracle (391) Profile Contact The nail polish remover has to be the kind with acetone. Nail polish remover without acetone probably won't work, as it didn't for Steve. Posted on 09/11/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By the Oracle (391) Profile Contact The nail polish remover has to be the kind with acetone. Nail polish without acetone probably won't work, as it didn't for Steve. Posted on 09/11/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By claudia (Guest Post) I had a melted plastic bag on the bottom of an aluminum kitchen pot and I tried the nail polish remover idea and it worked like a dream! thanks so much Posted on 04/27/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Steve (Guest Post) I used Easy Off as told from the above post. It work great! The nail polish remover didnt work with my situation. Posted on 02/15/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By DnK (Guest Post) Trying to melt it off is dangerous since many plastics emit cancerous emmissions. Smoke is not good! Posted on 10/31/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By chiprdjob (Guest Post) http://www.docsharleypages.com/easyoff.htm Try what this guy says it worked for me. Posted on 10/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By the Oracle (391) Profile Contact Forget the hair dryer, that's for wax. For plastic on metal, use nail polish remover, and I suspect the kind with acetone in it. Don't know whether it was stainless steel or chrome or plated. Apparently, it glides right off. Plastic on a coffee pot, use petroleum jelly. don't know why, maybe it's glass. Found this by googling plastic melted metal. I originally heard this on PBS by Haley with the book about how to clean things. Here's a motorcycle link for you: http://www.finishing.com/140/06.shtml Report back how you did. Posted on 10/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By the Oracle (391) Profile Contact I read about that somewhere. First, I would try a hairdryer to melt it off. I will get back to you. Posted on 10/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Melted Plastic on Chrome By Ed (Guest Post) Have you tried getting it hot and wiping it off with a rag??? Good luck. Posted on 10/01/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

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