Removing burnt-on plastic from chrome exhaust

Leaning over my winter hack today whilst uloading some stuff I melted a
small patch on my waterproof trousers where they touched the exhaust -
leaving a nice black burnt bit on the otherwise shiny chrome exhaust. The
hole in the trousers is low down and won't cause a problem because my boot
is underneath. However, I would like to remove the burnt-on plastic from
the exhaust without ruining the chrome - any suggestions?

 

Heat it up?

 

BGN says...

Not a bad suggestion at all. Same thing happened to my old waterproofs
and my 350LC silencer. I got the can hot then wiped the remaining
plastic off with white spirit. It evaporates quickly, but it will take
the melted plastic off without causing damage.

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I heard that acetone based nail polish remover does the trick

HTH

 

Of your *tank bag*???

Throwovers I can understand, but tank bag?

 

Nitromors. And no, I'm not taking the piss. Christofire tells me an eraser
works too, but I've not tried that yet.


--
Beav

VN 750
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That was my instinctive solution (yes, pun intended). I will give it a try.

 

Fer fucks sake, it's a winter hack. They don't have chrome in my part of
the world.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, the man with no

If you want a *really* gormless thing to do with a (magnetic) tankbag,
then find someone who came in from a long trip, and in a fit of
knackered stupidity, plonked his tankbag down in the middle of a
steel-swarf-infested workshop table.

I expect he felt quite silly. The ****.

--
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Paging TOG...

 

*Cough*

You mean the sort of gormless git who can't find his bike keys, and who
loks under his tankbag, and a million other places.

And whose magnetic tankbag is clasping them to its base...

 

Something like that, yes.