Dumb question - could you sandblast the chrome and nickel off? Bead
blast perhaps?
-Joey
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Kyle Munz <kyle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They've held up, but they don't get near as hot as exhaust pipes. They were
> also easier to sand since they didn't have that many strange angles.
>
> -Kyle
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Kurt Nolte <vturbine.po...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> So it's held up through use pretty well, then?
>>
>> I'm planning to hit most of the rust with a wire wheel (I have brass ones,
>> yes) and then probably some high phosphoric acid content "rust converter"
>> that I've found works well on automotive rust. Iron Phosphate is a neat
>> underlayer for paint.
>>
>> One of the big pieces is a set of stock pipes I got from another list
>> member. Most of the chrome still looks good on the cones, but the cross pipe
>> area and some of the header pipes are starting to rust pit, so given my
>> chrome=meh outlook on life (Applies to browsers too...) I figure I'd like to
>> paint those areas black. They get hot enough to actually cure the exhaust
>> paint I have, so that's even better, but that's a lot of oddly shaped real
>> estate to be sanding and priming and wet sanding and priming.
>>
>> -Kurt
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group.
To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lov...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
