How to remove silicone from chrome fork?
lime...@gmail.com
the wire for the front light.
Do you know of a solvent which will allow me to remove the Silicone
without compromising the chrome of the fork?
TIA
Lewis.
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landotter
How hard is it? I'd just scrape it off very carefully and clean with
with a plastic scrubbie. Chrome is pretty tough stuff.
RonSonic
Usually peeling and rubbing gets it. Use a plastic scraper like a guitar pick or
such to get started.
someone
Pocket knife. Chrome is super hard. If chrome flakes, it was a bad
job. Any solvent may compromise your eyes or lungs, blow the fork..
Nate Nagel
typically rubbing with your thumb will get it off; if that doesn't work
I would try one of those soft rubber pencil erasers (the white ones; the
pink ones tend to be more abrasive.)
nate
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Michael Press
<d55f00a2-58bd-4f27...@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
"lime...@gmail.com" <lime...@gmail.com> wrote:
That stuff does not dissolve.
Remove it mechanically; e.g. razor.
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Michael Press
Leo Lichtman
"Michael Press" WROTE: That stuff does not dissolve.
> Remove it mechanically; e.g. razor.
I haven't tried it, but I would expect that the last traces could be removed
with car polish or metal polish. (I was going to say "bumper polish," but I
realize that chrome bumpers hardly exist any more.
Nate Nagel
> some serious grit would help for that. The finer compounds used on
> clear coats or for finish work will probably be of little use.
I hesitate to recommend anything truly abrasive on chrome; if it's good
chrome the scratches will show and will look like hell. (now, they'll
be invisible from 10 feet away, but still.)
I was just cleaning the faucet in my bathroom, and it appears that in
the past someone cleaned it with I suspect Bon Ami or a similar product;
even after polishing with proper wadding polish it still looks like
crap. I'd replace it in a second if it weren't so hard to come to a
consensus with the design department (an ugly fixture is OK if it came
with the house, but buying something NEW - well that has to be nice, you
see. And our definitions of "nice" rarely align. Don't even ask me
about light fixtures.)
thef...@gmail.com
I feel for you. My wife's an architect. It takes her a month to pick
out a paint color for the house. (But she's quicker when buying german-
made shoes...)
tf
Michael Press
Nate Nagel <njn...@roosters.net> wrote:
> Still Just Me wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 May 2009 17:26:53 -0700, "Leo Lichtman"
> > <leo.li...@att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "Michael Press" WROTE: That stuff does not dissolve.
> >>> Remove it mechanically; e.g. razor.
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> I haven't tried it, but I would expect that the last traces could be removed
> >> with car polish or metal polish. (I was going to say "bumper polish," but I
> >> realize that chrome bumpers hardly exist any more.
> >
> > Maybe something traditional like rubbing or polishing compound with
> > some serious grit would help for that. The finer compounds used on
> > clear coats or for finish work will probably be of little use.
>
> I hesitate to recommend anything truly abrasive on chrome; if it's good
> chrome the scratches will show and will look like hell. (now, they'll
> be invisible from 10 feet away, but still.)
>
> I was just cleaning the faucet in my bathroom, and it appears that in
> the past someone cleaned it with I suspect Bon Ami or a similar product;
> even after polishing with proper wadding polish it still looks like
> crap.
A base canard. Bon Ami does not scratch plated plumbing fixtures.
The abrasive in Bon Ami is feldspar with Mohs hardness 6.0
Chromnium has Mohs hardness 8.5.
And now for practice. I have used Bon Ami since a child and
true to its slogan, has not scratched yet.
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Michael Press
Nate Nagel
well, who knows what was used. Some kind of abrasive cleanser, anyway,
and it wrecked it. Not a Scotchbrite pad, the scratches weren't regular
enough.