Cleaning a chrome pipe

[dam74]

I had a zimmy on my concept 30 that went that way.......take a washing tablet/powder....put in saucepan with hot water....place on hob for about 10 mins and simmer......I kid you not......thoroughly rince off.....voila!!!! polish to your hearts content......and no this is not a wind up.

Persil washing powder will probably work aswell. I've used washing powder to clean saucepans that I've burnt food onto before, works a treat. Thanks for reminding me. Shame I've only now got Persil Small and Mighty in the cupboard. Probably not worth buying a box of the Persil for the job as I could get a known metal cleaning product and be on the safe side. I guess one advantage of the Persil is that I could clean some clothes afterwards

[Kwickkwack]

Solvo Autosol is the best thing to clean chrome I have ever used,

[alwynclarke]

Try tcut for cars worked well for me

[Biggles]

Zimmys aint chrome guys......they are stainless steel.

[David Drew]

David, I wasn't bad mouthing you mate. .

I was only joshing Mark. Honestly, I didn't take it the wrong way.

If I'd been worried I'd have polished it before I sent it.....but I couldn't be arsed!!!! lol

David

[barney]

Castor Stains. Simmer the pipe in an old pan of antifreeze for a few hours, outdoors BTW.

I also suspect boiling the pipe in oil will possibly give the same result as the high temp will disolve the Castor.

Brian

[stevieb337]

autosol mate best i've ever used

[spunkmyer]

Intresting guys i have a zimmy and may try giving it a clean tomorrow.

[dam74]

I was only joshing Mark. Honestly, I didn't take it the wrong way.

If I'd been worried I'd have polished it before I sent it.....but I couldn't be arsed!!!! lol

David

That's ok Peter. I've got my SC .32 out and was about to put the .37 in when I realised that my can of hex sockets is in my car and I'm not going out at this time of night. Need the sockets to remove the cooling fan and clutch. Decided to pipe up the fuel and muffler to check that it was drawing fuel and the first thing I noticed was that it wasn't (this is what mine didn't do). So I adjusted the mix to a rough default setting which I believe is about 1.5 to 2 clicks out from closed. Seemed to draw fine then.

[Rctintin]

Lapping paste

[163phil]

Dissolve the stains out first with petrol, then polish

[Mart61]

Another vote for Solvol Autosol!

[ddracer]

Autosol is good but be carefull you don't polish the chrome platining off. Get some before and after pics as well.

[stevieb337]

do you have use of a bench grinder ? if you have use the polishing wheels on it with soft soap

[dam74]

do you have use of a bench grinder ? if you have use the polishing wheels on it with soft soap

Have a dremel equivalent with I think polishing wheels. However I thought this might be a bit abrasive.