Raw pipe rust repair

[evaneyeball]

I let my raw LED pipe rust pretty bad and I'm shining my bike up for this spring and wanted to give it new life. I'm powder coating my silencer black and red ill post pics when I'm done but I have 2 somewhat unfinished pipes that I made at LED and they are both rusted so I'm experimenting on them first and I used 000 steel wool and a red Scoth Brite pad and wd40 on one pipe and haven't touched the other the steel wool did ok it didnt take off as much rust as id like and the Scott Brite pad took off too much and took off the coloring of the pipe. Wich the coloring will comeback but it just won't look right. Another option is that I could just hit the whole thing with scotch Brite and use a oxy acetylene torch and put it back, I could do that but I'd prefer not to if any has any ideas

[croat1]

A friend mentioned that a product called The Works toilet bowl cleaner is the product to use.  I have not tried it.
I’d try it on the unfinished pipes


Joe

[atvmxr]

I've always done the steel wool- wd 40.  but that only works if its lightly rusted.    The internet is full of methods that work for very rusty pipes, but your pipe just looks like it has some very light surface rust

muratic acid
white vinegar
phosporic acid
tsp
tin foil
barkeepers friend
never dull
eagle wheel polish

[evaneyeball]

I tried scotch Brite and a acetylene torch and it looks better but I'm not sure if because the acetylene was never knocked off or what but around the welds looks like garbage so I'm knocking off the black on another piece and try again. I'm going to try some other methods too

[dp250r]

I used toilet bowl cleaner on one of my 85 250r Bassani pipes works great.

[evaneyeball]

What i ended up doing was getting as much of the rust and gunk stuck on off with scotchbrite pad and bar keepers friend and toilet bowl cleaner and then I just too the acetylene torch and torched around the welds again and I'm fairly happy with it.