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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 08:31 AM
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Got a set of V&H 2 into 1 big radius black pipes now have a few scratches on them.
Bunch of us road to a restrantant we came out after eating couple of the bikes had eather been pushed or knocked over. One bike fell onto mine scraching the pipes/heat shields . What should I use to help cover/hide. There are no dents and the scratches aren't that deep.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:10 AM
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re powder coat them
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:18 AM
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You can have them powder coated our you can paint them with a high heat spray paint.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:18 AM
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Both of the above mentioned methods will work. But wait a minute......bikes got pushed over??? WTF?
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by EricInNCa
Both of the above mentioned methods will work. But wait a minute......bikes got pushed over??? WTF?
Yea we thought the same busy downtown area over the weekend lots of foot traffic and bars, we where all parked diagonal in front of the restaurant/
bar and a couple of bike had been knocked over.
Don't really want to powdercoat just wonder is there's some type of touch up paint that will cover scratches.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:44 AM
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get a small paintbrush and a can of high heat spraypaint, spray the paint into a puddle on something and dip the brush in it and touch up.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike650
get a small paintbrush and a can of high heat spraypaint, spray the paint into a puddle on something and dip the brush in it and touch up.
This works pretty well, I've done it on a few sets of pipes
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike650
get a small paintbrush and a can of high heat spraypaint, spray the paint into a puddle on something and dip the brush in it and touch up.
I think I'm gonna have to trim my heat shield to install footboards, I'll try this method afterwards.
 
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I love black pipe and that's also the reason I don't get black pipes, scratch easily.
Time for PC!
 
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 11:24 AM
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Sucks your bike got roughed up... I've got some scratches on mine as well, I plan on taking the shields off, sanding, and repainting the whole thing with high temp black. It shouldn't be too big of a project.
 
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