nightcruiser
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Ran over a dry cleaning plastic bag that caught part of my exhaust and melted on it before I could get stopped. Now it is hard as a rock. Any ideas about how to get it off without a grinder or Dremel?:spyder2:
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Plastic coated exhaust - how do I get it off??
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Sent you a PM Nightcruiser. :thumbup:
As for getting the plastic off, it won't/can't form a molecular bond with the metal, so leave it hard & peel it off in chunks. You REALLY don't want to melt/soften it again! I've found that leaving it to cool/get cold & then picking/peeling it off in chunks using a blunt tool to prise up an edge works best for plastic that's melted on. Once it's cool, most plastics will come off fairly readily, but it is a painstaking process! :lecturef_smilie: If you melt it or soften it again, it goes all sticky and gets EVERYWHERE, and sticks to you and everything else it touches, tripling the mess!! :banghead:
Still, plastic is far easier to get off than the exploded guts of old road-kill once that's baked on!! :gaah: That stuff can STINK, I've had people RUN away from my vehicle due to the strench of burnt on road-kill; and I kid you not, on one occasion that happened to my 4WD Truck, it stunk so much that I whimped out, and just cut the exhaust right off, tossed it (a looong way off too!
) and replaced the whole exhaust rather than putting myself thru removing the baked on intestines & putting up with the smell until it cleared! :banghead: Just imagine this swollen & decaying donkey going 'BANG' :bdh: Peeling 'hard' plastic off is EASY by comparison! 
hyea:
Enjoy! :cheers:
As for getting the plastic off, it won't/can't form a molecular bond with the metal, so leave it hard & peel it off in chunks. You REALLY don't want to melt/soften it again! I've found that leaving it to cool/get cold & then picking/peeling it off in chunks using a blunt tool to prise up an edge works best for plastic that's melted on. Once it's cool, most plastics will come off fairly readily, but it is a painstaking process! :lecturef_smilie: If you melt it or soften it again, it goes all sticky and gets EVERYWHERE, and sticks to you and everything else it touches, tripling the mess!! :banghead:
Still, plastic is far easier to get off than the exploded guts of old road-kill once that's baked on!! :gaah: That stuff can STINK, I've had people RUN away from my vehicle due to the strench of burnt on road-kill; and I kid you not, on one occasion that happened to my 4WD Truck, it stunk so much that I whimped out, and just cut the exhaust right off, tossed it (a looong way off too!
) and replaced the whole exhaust rather than putting myself thru removing the baked on intestines & putting up with the smell until it cleared! :banghead: Just imagine this swollen & decaying donkey going 'BANG' :bdh: Peeling 'hard' plastic off is EASY by comparison! hyea: Enjoy! :cheers:
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spyderwing57
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MAYBE THERE IS A CHEMICAL YOU CAN APPLY TO SOFTEN THE PLASTIC and remove with a soft cloth.
pegasus1300
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Try Easy Off oven cleaner the brush on kind.
Mikey
Well-known member
Sent you a PM Nightcruiser. :thumbup:
As for getting the plastic off, it won't/can't form a molecular bond with the metal, so leave it hard & peel it off in chunks. You REALLY don't want to melt/soften it again! I've found that leaving it to cool/get cold & then picking/peeling it off in chunks using a blunt tool to prise up an edge works best for plastic that's melted on. Once it's cool, most plastics will come off fairly readily, but it is a painstaking process! :lecturef_smilie: If you melt it or soften it again, it goes all sticky and gets EVERYWHERE, and sticks to you and everything else it touches, tripling the mess!! :banghead:
Still, plastic is far easier to get off than the exploded guts of old road-kill once that's baked on!! :gaah: That stuff can STINK, I've had people RUN away from my vehicle due to the strench of burnt on road-kill; and I kid you not, on one occasion that happened to my 4WD Truck, it stunk so much that I whimped out, and just cut the exhaust right off, tossed it (a looong way off too!
Enjoy! :cheers:
ENJOY!! God Petter after reading this one it made my coffee taste bad!!!!:roflblack: I wonder if dry ice would help!! Get it really cold it may snap off easyer!
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