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Greenhorn
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Hi guys...as I was covering my bike just now, I noticed a large patch of rust on the underside of my British custom muffler left side...is there anything I can do about this? Pretty disappointed right now honestly.... 
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Saddle Sore
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Saddle Sore
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Most likely from the salt. Steel wool with oil will get it off, but rust means oxidation has occurred beyond the chrome. Keep it dry and oiled . No sure cure.
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Check Pants
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Never rub Stainless or Chrome with carbon steel anything (carbon steel brush, even sandpaper or grinding wheels after using on steel), the chromium picks up carbon molecules and will begin to rust. Don't believe it? Lay a piece of mild steel and stainless outside for a month in contact with each other, you will find rust developing at the point of contact and the stainless will continue to rust there even after separation. Wade is right, polish off the rust and keep it protected from the air. You can slow it way down, but the rust will win in the end eventually.
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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Coca cola and 0000 steel wool and light elbow grease !! You'll be amazed 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Greenhorn
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Thanks guys....very much appreciated....
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Saddle Sore
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Coca cola and 0000 steel wool and light elbow grease !! You'll be amazed
Phosphoric acid in the Coke eats up the iron oxide. And we drink the stuff !
I always thought that chromium was harder than steel, maybe so. The deposition of iron particulate on chrome is interesting, thanks Ryk *
* he knows metals, I wish I could hang out with him for a few months
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Loquacious
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Lol Wade , I can't remember the last soda pop I drank let alone the last coke !!! it will clean your toilet and eat chrome and destroy some metals and people insist on ingesting it ?? Roflmao The powers that be and their advertising machine  
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Learned Hand
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Learned Hand
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Coke is safe when used with copious quantities of rum
2004 Triumph Speedmaster (J Lo) 2006 Yamaha Stratoliner (Adele)
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I've always used aluminum foil and water. It leaves some residue, but is easily cleaned up with a shop towel. Been using it for years and makes the chrome/stainless look like new!
04 Speedy, 904cc 12:1 CR JE pistons, ProCom CDI, Nology coils, Hotwires, lightened flywheel, CR ll's, 18 tooth front sprocket, freak kit, cocktail shaker and scypter exhaust, bobbed rear fender, headwinds headlight, wires in bars, and Scott Oiler
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New Tires
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New Tires
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I thought all the BC brand mufflers were stainless. The only thing about stainless pipes is that over time they get a golden tint, easily buffed off with polish.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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Check Pants
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"golden tint", easily buffed off with polish.
Carbide Precipitation, common to the lower grades of 300 series Stainless, from exposure to heat. For a few measly dollars more, the exhaust manufacturers could use ELC (extra low carbon) Stainless, and you'd wonder where the Yellow went. Still beats Chrome plated Steel in every way. The insides of Steel exhaust systems absorb Carbon from exhaust gases until it becomes something known to some as "no longer Steel". Same thing that transpires inside Gas and Coal fired Boilers, which I have dealt with up close and personally.
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Monkey Butt
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Phosphoric acid in the Coke eats up the iron oxide. And we drink the stuff !
Be careful how much oxygen you allow in contact with it as well. It is called "Oxidation" after all. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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