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Originally Posted by jonboy
Okay Mitch here's what you do. Wash off the crap. Then use steel wool together with a metal polish like Autosol (or something like it) and just keep rubbing and rubbing till the corroded surface layer is eventually worn away. This will take forever BTW so be prepared to do this in several goes.
Now you should have a silver coloured pipe with a totally matt finish. If there are still marks on it then you need to go back to stage one.
Get a long strip of rag (about a metre by 5 cm) and then (after liberally coating the header pipe with more Autosol) loop it round the pipe twice so that you are holding both ends of it. Now push and pull in long regular strokes so that the rag is forced round the pipe. Gradually move the rag up and down the pipe while you're doing this adding more Autosol every few minutes. After about two hours you'll genuinely have a mirror finish.
Get a clean rag and wipe off any remains of the metal polish with a few vinegar strokes.  
Oh and you'll sweat a lot  . Good luck.
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What a long and laborious way to do things
Let me tell you the EASY way to do it. Cover the whole pipe with autosol
or something similar Plug in your power drill with the polishing buff on the end and keep going and applying said polishing compound until you can see your face. Get a clean rag and wipe off the excess. Go inside make a cuppa put your feet up and think about the poor chaps that are doing it manually.