Easy Off Oven Cleaner Remove Nylon Melted on Motorcycle Pipes

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   After a 1000 mile trip I had plastic from one of the luggage straps that had melted onto the anodized muffler (FMF Q4) on my bike. It had baked to a ceramic like coating.

   I looked around the internet for advice and found nothing useful. I tried all kinds of cleaning material to shift it. Even acetone wouldn't do a thing. The mess is so hard it basically needs to be abraded off, but what would do this without ruining the finish?

   I finally found the answer; 'Soft Scrub' bath cleaner. It is a mild abrasive that was hard enough to remove the mess but without damaging the finish or reacting with the metal, albeit with a LOT of scrubbing. Soft Scrub is a thick bathroom cleaner like 'Jif' or 'Cif' in Europe, so I'm sure they would work just as well.

   I'm posting this as I have not seen it mentioned before and maybe it will help someone else.

2. Wet fine sandpaper did the trick last time that happened to me.

   If I was more cautious, I would have tried Gumption first, which is an abrasive cleaning paste made from marble dust or something.

   But I went for wet sandpaper since my pipe already has a brushed metal finish. Just rub in the same direction and start out carefully inspecting your work to make sure you're not making a mess.

3. Don't know about the finish on your muffler but for cleaning burned & baked on material from chrome or stainless, oven cleaner is hard to beat.
   

4. I used a razor blade to scrape/chip it off when my wife left her riding pants draped over her buell and baked half the calf area onto the header...

   Wd-40 cleaned off the rest of the residual crap.

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   DSM8 Where fun goes to die....

   Easy off will remove the anodized surface from AL in some cases.

6. I have had success with spraying it with compressed air from a can; as the air expands it gets very cold, and tends to freeze up the plastic and make it very brittle. Follow up with a few light taps with a mallet and most of the plastic just shatters and falls off.

   This assumes that you have a fairly thick glob, though.

7. WD40, used on a hot pipe, is what I use to get stuff off of the exhaust.

8. I start the engine and get the pipes hot, then with a fine wire hand brush get the mess off, does not harm pipes finish, it works everytime

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   Strong Bad Former World's Foremost Authority Supporter

   Just finished taking the melted riding pants off of my son's stainless steel pipe. I took a propane torch and slowly heated the area until the nylon burnt to ash, when the pipe cooled I used a fine steel wool to polish it off.

10. Careful with oven cleaner around anodized aluminum. It will discolor or even remove the anodizing.

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    9mm Been here awhile

    I have had really good results with WD40 and steel wool on cold exhaust pipes.

12. Thanks all new [to me] solutions my exhaust[headers] looks like plastic garbage bag has melted on it and been heated and cooled god knows how many times.
    Will give them all a try till one works.

13. a single edge razor followed up with mothers mag polish or any aluminum polish...a few minutes and its all gone

14. I just used a heat gun to reheat it, then wiped it off. In pre-heat gun days, I used a propane torch. Obviously, much caution was needed with the latter, especially if the bike any fuel leaks whatsoever,

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