OK....What to do with melted shoe
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RE: OK....What to do with melted shoe
ORIGINAL: Brien Crotty
Another thing that works well is to get the pipes nice and hot, and use a popsicle stick to scrape it off. I have always been nervous about the steel wool idea, even though I know it won't scratch, I just can't bring myself to try.
One thing to AVOID - someone told a friend of mine to use Easy Off oven cleaner. Although this will remove the melted stuff on the pipes, as soon as the overspray hits your paint, it's going to burn it. If you spray Easy Off on hot pipes, it vaporizes into dangerous steam, which eats paint. My friend John found that out the hard way, so don't make the same mistake.
Brien Crotty
Another thing that works well is to get the pipes nice and hot, and use a popsicle stick to scrape it off. I have always been nervous about the steel wool idea, even though I know it won't scratch, I just can't bring myself to try.
One thing to AVOID - someone told a friend of mine to use Easy Off oven cleaner. Although this will remove the melted stuff on the pipes, as soon as the overspray hits your paint, it's going to burn it. If you spray Easy Off on hot pipes, it vaporizes into dangerous steam, which eats paint. My friend John found that out the hard way, so don't make the same mistake.
Brien Crotty
Of course on my bike, the pipes are high-heat flat black and wrapped with exhaust wrap, so there ain't no melted marks of any kind to see.
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