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A lad posted a picture of his bike on a Ducati forum I frequent which inspired me to polish the stainless on my exhausts.
I only had time to do one muffler, but want to do the other side (obviously) and do the headers.
today was really a test to see how far I could get with limited time.(1 and a half hours)
I have bought a carbon hugger from the US, and a carbon front guard from the UK, so I wanted to bling up some of the other components in preparation for their arrival.

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 sanded a couple of bad areas with 800 then 1000 grit sanding discs on a hand held sander (in first picture)
then buffed with a fine fabric polishing wheel and fast-cut wax (blue bar)

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  On 11/03/2017 at 2:43 AM, masda74 said:

what did you do to polish the stainless steel like that?

it looks brand new.

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Unfortunately it doesn't stay like that for long. 

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one hour to get the headers off :dohdoh:

 

hopefully it will go back together a bit quicker

 

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  On 11/03/2017 at 6:59 AM, masda74 said:

So how do you make an exhaust last for long with that sort of shiny look?

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I'm about to find out 

At a guess I would expect the headers to colour up pretty quickly with blue/purple strong at the cylinders   and decreasing down the pipe.

The mufflers I would expect to hold their shine for a long time.

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If I only had a spare 39K 

 

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