cleaning chrome
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cleaning chrome
Need some help please. Looking for suggestions on what to use to take melted nylon frabric off of chrome exhaust? Had a little accident and got a cover too close to a warm exhaust. Have tried mothers chrome cleaner and polish, and goo gone and no luck 
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That's the method I used to get melted or burned on material (Nylon, plastic garbage bags, skin...) off my '71 and Cobra's side pipes. Get it good and warm and scrape off with a putty knife . After it starts to cool a bit, a fine scrub free pas, then some polish.
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This is the best chrome cleaner on the planet. Well known in Europe, barely known here in the US.
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Get some steel wool from Lowes which I believe is 1000 count. It is very fine and rub it on the chrome. It will not scratch it and it will take off anything and shine like a new dime. That is all I use with not chemicals.
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Steel wool can embed small fibers into the chrome, which will rust.
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Here's a little trick I learned from wifey. Wife likes to burn candles in the house, usually cinnamon or similar. Of course, when the candle is lit, the wax can be in a liquid state around the flame and we had a guest's child knock one over onto the carpet. And of course we did not find out about it until the next morning. Wife got several paper bags from grocery store and cut them up into large flat squares and then placed one on the carpet where the wax was spilled. She then used a hot iron and just went back and forth (ironing the paper) over the wax til the paper was full. She then repeated it over and over (with a new clean paper) until all the wax had been wicked from the carpet to the paper. It was amazing how well it worked. So......
take some paper grocery store bags, heat up the nylon and wick it off onto the paper. Clean up with the polish and away you go.....
take some paper grocery store bags, heat up the nylon and wick it off onto the paper. Clean up with the polish and away you go.....
Last edited by CactusCat; Oct 31, 2013 at 12:16 PM.
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FYI - Two of my friends had new homes built in the Country Club addition here. Both had wive's in to burning candles in the house. Both had their homes burn to the ground about a year apart!
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And we used to have real Christmas trees in the house, until I saw how dangerous they are. After I saw one almost "explode" when ignited on the burn pile just a few days after the celebrations I adopted a "realistic imitation tree" policy! I love the smell and festive feeling of a real Christmas tree, but the risk of Chinese-made electrical appliances being adorned as a potential fuse around a flammable time bomb can ruin many a Yule-Tide event.