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Blue Pipes Gone

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Accepting the award for the cleanest pipes in N.E. Ohio is Slowride.

It's an honor to receive this award especially since I was the only one up for it (today). I want to thank BassCliff for the lead (he told me about Blue Job), Psyguy for the hope (he mentioned I have double skinned pipes), and Blue Job for the magic.

The blue in my pipes is almost entirely gone. (I did leave a little because Dogma said he likes his pipes blue and because I was getting tired of all the rubbing). It took a couple times of rubbing the Blue Job on, wiping it off, etc but they look a lot better. Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm going to try to attach a before and after photo. The before picture (the first one) was after the first attempt to rub it out.
 
Well, I guess the photos are not the best, but believe me, the pipes look a lot better. Now I just have to clean up the rest of the bike. I'll be riding soon.

Ed
 
Mr. slowride,

You can tell in the pictures. They look a lot better. Nice work!

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Looks nice.
Maybe a dumb question, but will it clean any discoloration such as brown along with the blueing?
 
Along with the blue, my pipes had some brown as well and it did get rid of it too. I was going to buy the Blue Job online ($14.95 + shipping) because I couldn't find it locally until I went into the local Harley shop. It was $11.95 for a little container of it (about the size of a skoal tin). It's a white powder and there is not very much in it, but, it goes a long way. I was temped to get another container before the price goes up because it works great on the other chrome as well.

Ed
 
Based on comments here, just ordered some Blue-Job from ebay. Several sellers have it for $12 shipped which seems expensive, but worth it if it works. Thanks for the tip.
 
I tried it too but it didn't do much for mine. Maybe mine were too blue?! I did have better results from using a buffer wheel and the white polish bar though.

You're right it is an awfully little amount in that container for the price. Sort of reminded me of Bar Keepers friend but it was a finer powder.
 
am i the only one that thinks the blue is cool? hell i'm anxious to try the whole "spray WD-40 on the pipes and runn the hell out of it" trick to make them blue faster and darker :-P

but if you dont like the blue then right on, i'm glad to know you can get it off
 
Ray, is your '81 GS850G cobalt blue? Mine is, at least that is the color it was called. Anyway, with the pipes nice and clean, you get a little blue reflection from the front fender in the pipes (but not real blue). I guess I'm old fashioned. Not 'old', just old fashioned.

Ed
 
It's a bit of an expensive solution if you want to get rid of the bluing permanently, but nickle-plating will do it.
I don't know the reason, but read in a tech magazine several years ago that nickle-plated pipes don't turn blue. I tried it on several of my customer's aircraft exhaust stacks, and it works. No bluing.
 
To DaveDanger:
Don't stand so close to that prop- you're making me nervous8-[!
 
lurch12_2000 said:
To DaveDanger:
Don't stand so close to that prop- you're making me nervous8-[!
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It's a PT6, harmless if it's not running... You can even hold the prop while they start the engine and it won't move until you let it go.
Compressor driven by one turbine, propeller driven by the other, not interconnected.
 
slowride said:
Ray, is your '81 GS850G cobalt blue? Mine is, at least that is the color it was called. Anyway, with the pipes nice and clean, you get a little blue reflection from the front fender in the pipes (but not real blue). I guess I'm old fashioned. Not 'old', just old fashioned.

Ed
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Not sure what color it started out. When I got it, there was some kind of truck bed coating on it with a silver paint over it.
I painted it with chameleon so depending on the angle you're looking at it from, it's green, orange, purple or sort of bluish.
Looks like this:
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/0e22e2b0-1b5a-4662-a365-f9eb2006da3d.htm
 
LOL...great find.. and I live in the state where they sell it bwahah can't wait to use on my pipes to get them cleaned up and all that good stuff
 
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