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Repairing chrome exhaust pipe turned brown by cleaning fluid
I recently took my bike to get fixed and for some reason the mechanic decided to clean the exhaust pipe with a cleaning liquid not allowed on chrome. Now the chrome has a dirty brown tinge! How do I get rid of it?
Boipelo MolwelaHobbyist - Johannesburg, Gauteng,South Africa
April 29, 2009
Hi, Boipelo. You haven't told us what the cleaning fluid was, and we have no pictures of the damage, so we can only speculate :-)
But whatever the fluid and whatever the damage, it sounds highly unlikely that any repair is possible short of replating. Good luck.
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Ted Mooney, P.E.
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finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
April 30, 2009
According to one expired USA patent you ca use next solution:80 gr Thiourea ⇦ this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] /20 gr nitric acid/1 lit water. Any proprietary chrome cleaner can be used too.Hope it helps and good luck!
Goran Budija- Cerovski vrh Croatia
May 8, 2009
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