Removing plastic off stainless steel exhaust

[apexjapan]

Just a fun little progression of recovering a muffler tip from long burnt plastic, using tools at hand. They've been sitting around for a while, so decided to have a go at it. All of this would be fairly easy if you had a big buffing wheel designed for this sort of thing. This is for all those people that don't.

 

yeah, pretty ugly.

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_001.jpg

 

 

Heat gun set to Obliviate to soften it up a bit. It and a box knife blade for getting the major stuff off first.

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_002.jpg

 

 

After trying a variety of other chemical methods, it got down to doing it the hard way.

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_003.jpg

 

Now for the fun part...

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_004.jpg

 

 

A lot of polishing via what was on hand. Having all the proper equipment (big buffers) would help. Used a simple (small) dremel buffer with some buffing compound.

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_005.jpg

 

And then the final touch by hand.

http://www.avoturboworld.com/images/muffler/muffler_fix_006.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Paul Hansen

http://www.avoturboworld.com

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[tdcmr2]

Did you try gasoline? It should dissolve it

[apexjapan]

I did, it didn't. I think in most cases it will, this was a bit on the extreme recovery side.

 

Regards,

 

Paul Hansen

[Chameleon]

Great ... i have always wondered this but never tackled it.

 

Thanks