The paint and chrome work of the Yamaha LS3 were in pretty bad condition. After a good wash I started to clean up the chrome work or what was left of it. I used a painters razor blade to cut of the rust.
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| Scraping of the rust with a razor blade |
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| Cleaning the exhaust |
If there's a tiny little hole in the chrome, the metal underneath it starts rusting an all the rust will find its way out and forming a "rust stain" on top of the chrome work. If it's really bad the rust will also go underneath the chrome and push it up. If the chrome is that bad you can't restore it, re-chroming is the only solution if you want to make it look good again. You'll be surprised how good rusted chrome can look again. After carefully scraping off the rust I polished it with chrome polish. Looking way better than before but... some parts were to far gone.
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| After removing most of the rust |
The exhaust was pretty bad, it's really pitted and on some parts the chrome is completely gone. Still looking better than before all the scraping.
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| Looking better |
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| Yamaha LS3 |
Yip. It's amazing how good chrome can look after a bit of time and polish and you aren't then scared to get it wet like you would be with expensively rechromed parts
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