help,removing boot marks?

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help,removing boot marks?

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how do you remove boot marks from hot pipes? i bought a bottle of boot mark remover at dealer But, they didn't have the scrub pad. i have been told use tar remorver, (didn't work) it's old thou, some one said use aluminum foil (bright side) as scrub pad (worked) but if i scrub hard it scratches. i'm runing my new pipes. i've been watching on how i'm touching it. not sure how.
need advice as i'm new to hot pipes. thanks. :(

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Many moons ago (my wife is going to kill me for telling this story) when I regularly doubled her on the back (and before she even had a motorcycle license), she rested her boot heel on the pipe when riding, each week I'd polish up the bike and notice a rubber on the pipes and wonder, where did that come from... well, it didn't take long to figure that one out...haha

Thus I had to clean it up, I found autosol worked. Also always use the finest steel wool possible first (like 000) then move into the lower grades.

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Re: help,removing boot marks?

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totalmotorcycle wrote:Many moons ago (my wife is going to kill me for telling this story) when I regularly doubled her on the back (and before she even had a motorcycle license), she rested her boot heel on the pipe when riding, each week I'd polish up the bike and notice a rubber on the pipes and wonder, where did that come from... well, it didn't take long to figure that one out...haha

Thus I had to clean it up, I found autosol worked. Also always use the finest steel wool possible first (like 000) then move into the lower grades.

Mike
thanks mike, the tin foil might work with that. i clean it with tin foil after using hill mark remover. 1 place i rub to hard, left scratches, where i didn't rub hard it didn't. i just thought there was a better way, safe.

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