Cleaning melted rubber... [Archive] - SV650.org

Skip

11-06-07, 10:23 AM

Had some new tyres fitted on Friday and thought I would send the old one off in style so did a fairly smokey burnout - great fun! However whilst cleaning the bike over the weekend I noticed that the back of the numberplate and the undertray has a nice line of rubber blobs all over it that refuse to come off!

Anyone got any tips to remove it? Dont really want to scrape them off as I am worried about damaging the plastic...

Yes I know I am a muppet for doing it in the first place! :-dd :rolleyes:

Jdubya

11-06-07, 06:16 PM

Dunno...try some muc-off or rubbing with wd-40 and some elbow grease on a plastic brillo pad...

Rich

11-06-07, 06:26 PM

Warm it up with a hair dryer maybe, with abit of wd40 on a cloth rub like mad. Failing that i used an old credit card to get stubborn muck off before now, wroth a go!!!

HTH :cool:

seedy100

11-06-07, 06:34 PM

Blow torch

HTH!

Disclaimer :- any advice given herein to total B0ll0ck$!

Skip

11-06-07, 08:02 PM

Would you believe that just rubbing it with a finger gets it off....! Will attack it properly later on - thanks people! :)

simple simon

11-06-07, 08:24 PM

Hey Skip, tar and glue remover (from an autoshop) or nail polish remover should do the trick too (and I know you've got plenty lying around!).

HTH

Lozzo

11-06-07, 10:49 PM

Had some new tyres fitted on Friday and thought I would send the old one off in style so did a fairly smokey burnout - great fun! However whilst cleaning the bike over the weekend I noticed that the back of the numberplate and the undertray has a nice line of rubber blobs all over it that refuse to come off!

Anyone got any tips to remove it? Dont really want to scrape them off as I am worried about damaging the plastic...

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