Furry header pipes...

[mr.z]

At present they are not rotting, but they aren't looking amazeing at the moment...

the can is perfectly fine, with some minor effort it would be as new, the the headers are getting distinctly mankey, slight but i suspect irreversable pitting has begun...

So a few questions


Whats the best thing to do with the headers now? With a means to look presentable, stay in service as long as possible...

Paint em black and ignore? herculan polishing effort? magic rust killer?

How exactly do you treat header pipes anyway? what do you poilsh them with? mine have scratches (which ive probably done) these are not helping the overall decay. they are not awfull but you don't need to look close to see they are less than perfect nowdays (its an all weather bike as well, doubt that helps).

theres allot of retouching the old dear could do with but not on the cards for a while, in the meantime i dont want to have a lump of brown fuzz with tyres happening

Any advice?
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[Claud 14.7 to 1]

Mine too (mine are rusting) , but I'll have to wait till Christmas, till I get back.

Any ideas about what is the best thing to do in the meantime?

I'm just spraying they with WD40/GT85. Yeah I know it burns off straight away, but I'm all out of ideas.

Mind you, they should last till Christmas.

[instigator]

I asked this a while back, basically a friend of mine is just painting his with black oven paint, non gloss I think....

You could always apply some deruster or something similar firstly and then a couple of coats of the stove paint......or BBQ paint

[iCraig]

Well best thing to do would sand the pipes down to get rid of the corrosion and remove any shite etc.

And then paint them with high temperature engine paint, let it cure and hey presto.

I did this with one of my old bikes, a GS500, and it actually looked quite presentable.

[cagiva gezzer]

Bead blast and VHT paint.
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