blowit Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 Long story short, like an idiot last year, I brought one of my bike home on an open trailer with snow on the ground and inadvertently got salt spray all over it. Totally forgot about the bike for several months and it formed rust spots on about everything chrome. Powdered parts are fine but I have a lot of chrome on the bike so it rather pisses me off. Laeger long travel, Protrax front end, etc. Parts I am most concerned about are the pipe and swing arm. We do not have many chrome guys here that are worth using. I am not sure as to the severity of the damage yet but I will guess re-chroming will be needed. Really kind of sucks. I know getting new chrome on pipes can be a real bitch. I have never had luck polishing chrome. Chrome is a very nonporous surface and any scratch really shows up so polished just seems to haze the finish and I have never been happy with it. If I could get a large improvement in the finish, I might just leave it for now. My race bike so it could take a tumble at any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKheathen Posted April 17, 2010 Report Share Posted April 17, 2010 i'm assuming you have tried the #0000 steel wool already? start with a concentrated simple green soak, then wash it out really good. then pollish it up with the highest silicate metal polish you can find. look for "metal clean" it think is the name. i don't have the can in front of me, but it works really well in severl initial coats, like 6, and will polish rusted steel to a mirror shine that repels water. it's definately worth the try....i'm goin after my 20's next month when the salt spray finishes washing off the roads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WINDYCITYJOHN400 Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 And of course I'll throw in the old school trick of soaking it over night in COKE. Yes COKE. If the chrome isn't so bad that it's peeling, Coke eats the rust off pretty nicely over night. Then you can touch it up with the steel wool and do a polish job on it. Carefull though, now that it's rusted once...your going to have to keep a decent coat of wax on the stuff at least 2 times a year, or else you'll find it changing back to rust. Let us know what you try and how it works out. Good Luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokestack Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 I have fmf fatty pipes and they had alot of rust. I used my power ball with some mequiars metal polish. Shined them right up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbanshee8 Posted April 18, 2010 Report Share Posted April 18, 2010 Has anyone ever tried the rust, and blueing remover for guns? I'm not sure if it would harm chrome, or not, but if not, it sure does work great on rust spots on firearms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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