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Cleaning the inside of an RLV R4 Spec Honda pipe...?
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Randy Mckee



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ken Schilling wrote:
Hey Fosso, even with Robert Marks, PP Mastro and Trevor McAllister moving up to S2 in PKC, S4 is still going to be stacked: McKee, Kidd, Hromada, Ruth, etc... Woo-hoo!!!


Yeah, S4 is always a good class. Sorry to say, but I don't think I'll make the 1st race. Ken, go kick some you-know-what with your freshly cleaned-out pipes. Not sure that came out right (oooh double pun).
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris Fosso wrote:
hmm all good idea`s..
i have never done more then really soak mine....good info..

darrell, you going up to S-2 also? <smile!>

Chris at 52 I'll stick with the plus 30 . S4 is the best class , this yr will be very interesting and bad ass .
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go to Home Depot or lowes and buy a piece of steel cable about 1/2 the length of your exhaust. Take the cable and unwrap the end- fray it and chuck the other end in you drill. Run the cable back and forth through exhaust from both sides. Use gloves, eye protection and be careful. Works great used it on my GP bikes for years.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ken , yea i know i was just talkin smack!.
all i can do is try...should be fun..
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i wonder how hot you can get pipe... a friend has an oven for baking car heads...i could put pipe in.. and bake out inside,...
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the way i have always cleaned any pipe is in a caustic soda bath, it even removes R30 and M40 build up. "Drano".

cut the side out of a twenty litre industial drum, fill it with cold water, pour in half a kilogram of Drano, stir it with a stick till it desolve's, you'll feel the plastic drum get hot, put the pipe in leave it over night or a few days, take it out and hose it with high pressure cleaner,..works a treat,..the soda does all the work,
just don't get confused like a friend of mine and use hydrochloric acid and come back a few days later to an empty bin Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Owen Rowell wrote:
the way i have always cleaned any pipe is in a caustic soda bath, it even removes R30 and M40 build up. "Drano".

cut the side out of a twenty litre industial drum, fill it with cold water, pour in half a kilogram of Drano, stir it with a stick till it desolve's, you'll feel the plastic drum get hot, put the pipe in leave it over night or a few days, take it out and hose it with high pressure cleaner,..works a treat,..the soda does all the work,
just don't get confused like a friend of mine and use hydrochloric acid and come back a few days later to an empty bin Laughing


What do you do with your superfund site when you're done?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did the steel cable and drill drick mentioned above and it worked pretty well. Got a lot of carbon out. Wish I could get it all out though.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris Fosso wrote:
i wonder how hot you can get pipe... a friend has an oven for baking car heads...i could put pipe in.. and bake out inside,...


effing hot. I used to cook the leopard headers to cherry red (see pics above). No problem. It's mild steel, what's the issue?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

joseph hollinger wrote:
Owen Rowell wrote:
the way i have always cleaned any pipe is in a caustic soda bath, it even removes R30 and M40 build up. "Drano".

cut the side out of a twenty litre industial drum, fill it with cold water, pour in half a kilogram of Drano, stir it with a stick till it desolve's, you'll feel the plastic drum get hot, put the pipe in leave it over night or a few days, take it out and hose it with high pressure cleaner,..works a treat,..the soda does all the work,
just don't get confused like a friend of mine and use hydrochloric acid and come back a few days later to an empty bin Laughing


What do you do with your superfund site when you're done?


You neutralize the caustic with vinegar? Seems pretty easy...just throw in a splash of baking soda as an indicator and then add vinegar until the mix starts to bubble at pH 5. Everything goes down the drain after that and there isn't a septic or sewer system that can't handle that stuff.

All for being responsible and not into any form of being stupid. Arbitrarily saying no is just as silly as 'hey guys watch this'...

And, fwiw, caustic is the #1 most common industrial approach to cleaning burnt organics from steel without the downside of changing material properties significantly. Hi-temp guaranteed to have that effect... <shrug>
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Larry Andrews wrote:


You neutralize the caustic with vinegar? Seems pretty easy...just throw in a splash of baking soda as an indicator and then add vinegar until the mix starts to bubble at pH 5. Everything goes down the drain after that and there isn't a septic or sewer system that can't handle that stuff.


You think anyone does that?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Curious, if people use this stuff to clean drains, why exactly does it need to be neutralized?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tyson Henry wrote:
Curious, if people use this stuff to clean drains, why exactly does it need to be neutralized?


My thought exactly, Drano is designed to go down the drain, the only addition would be the rust and grease from the pipe.....

Kinda sound like what clogs a drain.....

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris Reinhardt wrote:
Tyson Henry wrote:
Curious, if people use this stuff to clean drains, why exactly does it need to be neutralized?


My thought exactly, Drano is designed to go down the drain, the only addition would be the rust and grease from the pipe.....

Kinda sound like what clogs a drain.....

CR


If anything, seems like it would be a good idea to throw it down the drain when you are done with it. Kill two birds with one stone.
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