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Mr 650 Serious Thumper Offline The LS650- Classic style & 4-valve engine Posts: 1389 Mempho Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #15 - 09/05/04 at 01:58:27 rocknrob wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Okay, I am a new Savage owner, what is this plastic needle?????? The plastic washer is a spacer under the needle jet. check the Thumper page, been covered under several forums, old news.
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #16 - 09/05/04 at 02:21:03 Mr 650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Ok,spill the beans. Okay, what's the number?
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suzyssuzi YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 49 nanaimo british columbia Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #17 - 09/05/04 at 07:35:43 have seen several pics of tape wrapped around pipes , does anyone know about this looks cool and will cover the blueing pipe. would esp look good on certain color bikes .
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Gitarzan Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline ! Posts: 827 Columbus, Oh, Earth, Solar Sys Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #18 - 09/05/04 at 07:59:28 Strangely, the bluing doesn't bother me. ??? I think it looks mean.
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #19 - 09/05/04 at 11:14:09 Gitarzan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Strangely, the bluing doesn't bother me. ??? I think it looks mean. Yeah, it isn't bad. Just think of some bikes like the BMW that have only stainless single wall pipes. They are always blue.
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Reply #20 - 09/05/04 at 11:21:46

suzyssuzi wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

have seen several pics of tape wrapped around pipes , does anyone know about this looks cool and will cover the blueing pipe. would esp look good on certain color bikes .

I forget the name but I know what you mean. Not only does it cover the pipes and make them flat black, but they also are well insulated. I met a guy with a HD that had that done and while talking he said that I could touch his header without getting burned...."What?", I said, and then I gently touched his header pipe with my finger (call me a sucker?) Amazingly he was right. I was able to touch the pipe on an engine that he had just turned off.....just warm to the touch.

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #21 - 09/05/04 at 12:05:14 I hear what You're about the single wall pipe, That's why My black stuff keeps wearing off then ??? Clive W
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Jon

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Reply #22 - 09/05/04 at 13:17:49

> I still don't believe that you can manually polish chrome to the same shine and smoothness that the electo-plating process creates

Right on, prior to chrome plating metal parts are polished to a mirror shine with tin oxide, silicon carbide, and other compounds. The chrome just covers the existing smooth surface. Chrome is also way up there on the Mohs hardness scale so you'd probably need a polishing powder fine enough and hard enough (like powdered diamond) to put a shine on chromium.

The blue is sort of an oxidation. Blue-Away will 'usually' remove the blue chemically if you just smear some of the paste on a cold pipe and leave it sit awhile. The grit in Blue-Away (a pumice, I think) is intended to remove burned on road gorp and bugs, and it will dull the chrome if you scrub. Don't scrub it, let the chemicals work, then clean off the scorched bugs with Mequiars cleaner wax which will not dull the chrome.

Btw, there are other products in powder form that you mix with water to remove blue. They also work chemically.

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #23 - 09/06/04 at 03:47:43 Where is the plastic washer, above or below. Clive W
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #24 - 09/06/04 at 04:24:10 klx650sm2002 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Where is the plastic washer, above or below. Clive W Above
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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #25 - 09/06/04 at 04:34:15 Thanks a lot Greg that makes sence to Me and I feel much better now. Clive W
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #26 - 09/06/04 at 05:09:04 You are welcome, Friend.
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Reply #27 - 09/06/04 at 07:34:33

I have to take back my ealier statements about that suff working. I guess when I used it before the problem wasn't that bad. Sad

While trying to fix my problem with the the new turnsignals my dad killed my battery and when he was trying to charge it once he got it started he had the bike in my garage and kept the engine at high rpms and smoked it! Now I can't get the dis-coloration off.

Does anyone know if Suzuki changed anything with the header pipe since '86? If not I'm hoping to be able to replace it.

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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Dis-coloring pipes!! Reply #28 - 09/07/04 at 02:16:10 I don't believe there are any changes in the header pipe. Shouldn't be a problem.
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russ_g Ex Member	is blueing the same as golding? Reply #29 - 09/08/04 at 14:00:05 My pipe actually has a gold tinge to it. Is that the same thing. Actually looks kind of nice as it fades from a gold to the chrome silver.
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