Blue-job chrome cleaner

[perpetualnewb]

My 2003 bonneville's exhaust headers where far from pretty, on a whim (after some to-ing and fro-ing over the cost) I bought a tub of blue-job from amazon.co.uk.
At 14.95 for 14 grams, it's a fairly pricey bit of white powder.

The first time I tried it on a spot I was chatting to a motorcycle courier, and he was blown away by the efficacy on the bit we looked at.
This time I actually thought to take some pics first, here they are:

And then I spat on the polishing cloth (seriously, that's the instructions) dipped it in the powder, and rubbed. The initial transformation is almost instant - that is getting rid of the blue, and the odd stain at the top curve.


My pipes after about 10-15mins of light elbowing are a lot better, though I still have deep grain like yellowy brown stains.

I've never used AutoSol or similar to compare, but this seemed impressive. Apparently autosol scratches, and then the wax fills in the scratches, this blue-job stuff is just really really fond of oxygen.

 

[DaveM]

I have never heard of it before now so I looked it up and found this video. Impressive looking stuff Blue-Job Chrome Restorer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta7KvVBfUYw

 

[perpetualnewb]

Can't believe I forgot to post the video. That voice over cracked me up. And I wish I had an orbital sander. Or someway way to get the pipes near electricity without taking them off.
The strip of polishing cloth I got in my tub was about a third of the size of the one in the demo video.
The powder you see excess in the demo must be about £3 worth.
I get the impression he's got massive vats of this stuff he manufactures for pennies, but can sell at a 100x-1000x time markup cause it works - and what's £15 qhen you've spent £40k on your shiny chromey harley

 

[DaveM]

It does look like he has a market for it and I think a sander or polisher would really do the trick. The thing is if you don't already have one the extra expense may not be worth it just for one set of pipes

 

[Rocky]

I have some of this stuff and it works.
It takes quite a bit of elbow grease and time to get some results, but it does work.

 

[CarlS]

I have used it and it does work with lots of elbow grease and persistence.

 

[Bonnie79D]

Lookup aluminium oxide powder on the net. I believe that is all blue job is. 38 quid for 2.2 lbs.

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[perpetualnewb]

Bonnie790 I suspect the same when I first saw it.
I've seen a post by the creator where he claims his background is as a crytalline chemist and worked on new compounds to polish emeralds and this came out of that. But it might all be bs and it is just Al2O3

 

[Rocky]

This thread has me thinking that with all the wet weather we're having, and since I'm confined inside anyway, maybe I should get out the BJ and clean up my pipes too

 

[CarlS]

I am not desperate enough for something to do to clean pipes!

 

[Tassie Tiger]

Just received a small tin of this stuff. Bugger all powder in it & a very small polishing cloth too.
Yes it does work but it requires plenty of effort if you don't have a sander.