Stainless split exhaust collets

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

For saying how rust and manky they get is anyone making SS
 exhaust collets for old Honda's at sensible money?

[Johnwebley]

I wire brushed mine clean, then sprayed them with zinc high temperature paint,

Think it was made by Rustoleum


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[Sesman]

I went that route. I soaked them for a few days in a derusting agent the name of which I can’t recall, polished them off with a rotary wire brush, wiped them off with acetone then painted them in very HT paint. It won’t last, but it smartened them up for a while. Might even last longer than when they were new.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

After wire brushing off the worst I've left mine in Evaporust for a week. A few of them have out of shape  flanges that I'll need to hammer out.

That's when I got thinking about SS ones - quite a bit of work to shape them I guess.

[Johnny4428]

I’m sure someone on here was going to have a go at making ss ones, maybe Oddjob?

[Oddjob]

No, I sanded them completely flat, then polished them so they shone and they will be getting Cermakrome ceramic coated shortly. Did about 22 of them I think. Spotted them the other day still in the ziplock bag, some have started to go a little rusty in areas but nothing a few minutes with the Dremel won't sort out.

[Laverdaroo]

Giz a look when you get round to it Ken, mine are in the 'to source' box at the min as are pretty shagged out. If youre floggoing them l'll have a set maybe, when  the time comes to get some. Hadnt even thouht that far ahead yet.........

[Oddjob]

Your washers were posted today Roo.

How bad are your collets BTW, I threw quite a few away because they were just junk really. I only restored the ones with lots of metal left. Some were so rusty they were paper thin.

[Nurse Julie]

Ted. There is a chap local to me that is making SS collets for 400/4's. I'm just going to reference the part number to see if the fit the 500 as well, because I can't remember 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Ted. There is a chap local to me that is making SS collets for 400/4's. I'm just going to reference the part number to see if the fit the 500 as well, because I can't remember 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Be handy if they are.

[Nurse Julie]

Unfortunately they are not Ted, I've just cross referenced the part number and totally different. I'll ask him if he will be doing 500 ones though.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

There are quite a few 500 & 550 re-builds here so might be worth it for someone to make them.

Noticed the DS ones for a 500 are quite a bit cheaper than the 400 ones.

[Laverdaroo]

Your washers were posted today Roo.

How bad are your collets BTW, I threw quite a few away because they were just junk really. I only restored the ones with lots of metal left. Some were so rusty they were paper thin.

As you'd expect from anythinf off this bike, they're pretty beat up and very thin. I was going to get soem 'repo cheap' ones when the time came, just havent got reound to it yet as not that important. I was kindly jogged into remembering by Teds post. Still got to find somebody to chrome the pipes first!

[Nurse Julie]

There are quite a few 500 & 550 re-builds here so might be worth it for someone to make them.

Noticed the DS ones for a 500 are quite a bit cheaper than the 400 ones.

If you give me the measurements Ted, he will make a set of 500 ones for you in SS.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

There are quite a few 500 & 550 re-builds here so might be worth it for someone to make them.

Noticed the DS ones for a 500 are quite a bit cheaper than the 400 ones.

If you give me the measurements Ted, he will make a set of 500 ones for you in SS.

Any idea of the cost involved Julie?
I would have no idea how to measure one up correctly as there are so many measurements involved - I'd just post him a bent one. 

Some listings seem to show same as 400 see below 40mm x 26 mm.
.https://www.japan-webike.ie/ps/18233-107-000/#!search&p.k=18233-107-000