Another good product for cleaning headers

[crazy dave]

HAs anyone hearrd of Bar Keepers friend? This stuff works miracles. Cleans any hard non porous surface, unless varnished. Using it at work for a good 6 months now it just clicked in my head today to try it on the headers. So with #0000 steel wool and a couple hours my headers are now nice and shiny Sry about the quality of my pic. All i had on me was my cell

 

[jresch10]

SWEET! I was wondering if anything would work to clean the header.

 

[CHEMIKER]

They look great from what I can tell!

I use BKF on my all-clad pans and my kegerator steel top with great results. I used it once a year or so ago on the headers with #0000 steel wool without great results. It seemed to leave scratches.

I can't tell from your picture, are your headers mirror smooth? Maybe I didn't polish for long enough. What was the consistency of BKF? I used the powder and just enough water to make a paste.

 

[chomorro]

Mine will never look like that . I think mine are bronze colored lol

 

[crazy dave]

They look great from what I can tell!

I use BKF on my all-clad pans and my kegerator steel top with great results. I used it once a year or so ago on the headers with #0000 steel wool without great results. It seemed to leave scratches.

I can't tell from your picture, are your headers mirror smooth? Maybe I didn't polish for long enough. What was the consistency of BKF? I used the powder and just enough water to make a paste.

I used the liquid and its consistancy can be compared to whole milk i guess. I do have some scratches but i used #000 steel wool with a different product last year so its most likely from that. But they are quite shiny.

Ive also used BKF on brass railings with just a sponge and they look better then when i used brass polish. Also on stove tops stainless steel sinks, toaster, toster oven, glass, tile. etc. The active ingrediant is oxalic acid, which seems to be oxidations worst enemy. even made a 1943 penny like new.

 

[CHEMIKER]

Cool, maybe I'll give it another shot. I'm not going to use steel wool this time though, I feel like it left scratches when I used both.

 

[crazy dave]

Ill take a better quality picture once my camera is charged up

 

[Powerman]

I've grown to love the bronze color.

 

[agf]

Hey folks I used the same stuff for polishing pots and pans, Gumption and a scourer, took about 5 minutes per pipe, not perfect but the pic shows what a little elbow grease will do.
what I really want to know is once they have a really nice clean look how can I keep them like that

 

[crazy dave]

camera sucks in the dark

 

[mrphotoman]

i found that a 35 cent scotch brite pad, some soap and about 10 minutes makes mine look good.

 

[crazy dave]

i found that a 35 cent scotch brite pad, some soap and about 10 minutes makes mine look good.

doesnt that scratch them up though?

 

[Circle]

Hey folks I used the same stuff for polishing pots and pans, Gumption and a scourer, took about 5 minutes per pipe, not perfect but the pic shows what a little elbow grease will do.
what I really want to know is once they have a really nice clean look how can I keep them like that

Thats great! My mum loves Gumption. Swears by it, to it and around it.
So much so I use it now.

Urgh - Just relaised I moving into dish washing territory...:ban:

 

[Kaisersoze]

Hey folks I used the same stuff for polishing pots and pans, Gumption and a scourer, took about 5 minutes per pipe, not perfect but the pic shows what a little elbow grease will do.
what I really want to know is once they have a really nice clean look how can I keep them like that

Mine stayed spotless for about 2 weeks in good weather and then picked up gunk when it rained.

 

[mikw73]

I keep hearing that I don't want to use this on chrome. Are our headers not chrome? Mine is an '06. Thx.

 

[ChevyFazer]

I keep hearing that I don't want to use this on chrome. Are our headers not chrome? Mine is an '06. Thx.

No they are not chrome they are polished stainless steel

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[mikw73]

No they are not chrome they are polished stainless steel

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Thanks. For some reason, I doubted that Crazy Dave was crazy.