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HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/15/2008 5:46:59 AM

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I've seen a couple posts about repacking with steel wool from Home Depot. Do you use any fiberglass packing (100% wool)? Anybody done it? How'd it turn out? Any pics? Thanks.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/17/2008 12:28:21 AM

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I have heard it works fine....you can get the stuff to do it off of ebay or maybe some places online

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/17/2008 6:13:11 AM

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I just went to a dealer, and bought some moose muffler packing for like $6.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/17/2008 1:42:14 PM

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Have you ever seen what happens to finly shredded pieces of steel when it gets wet? I picked a piece up off the shop floor last week and it crumbled in my fingers.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/18/2008 6:27:20 PM

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Good point. I think I'm gonna stick w/ the regular stuff.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/18/2008 7:07:25 PM

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I've seen a couple posts about repacking with steel wool from Home Depot. Do you use any fiberglass packing (100% wool)? Anybody done it? How'd it turn out? Any pics? Thanks.

Wool is sheep hair. Steel is made when iron and carbon are mixed. Glass is made when we finally nuke a couple of key desert targets.

Don't put wool in your pipe. Steel wool rusts to nothing pretty quick. Fiberglass is kind of OK but it's hard to find the right stuff, it packs up too tight and doesn't breath good. Generic steel wool or fiberglass "can" be used, but with mixed and mediocre results. Proper packing material is not 'that' different, but it works better.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/27/2008 7:18:54 PM

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We used some stainless steel "steel wool" from a local hardware store to quiet down a Megaphone exhaust and it worked great, never burnt up or rusted out. Quieted it down to a level suitable for riding around here for only a few bucks.

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/29/2008 6:09:22 AM

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I used some of the steel scrubby pads for my Big Gun. Working great so far…

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RE: HMF Steel Wool Repack - 9/29/2008 10:39:17 PM

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you can send it back to HMF for a repack, it was posted up here a while ago, took about 3-4 weeks and $50-70ish bux i think. not to bad for a new-ish HMF. the repack, resurface, redecal, ect.. i'll probably send mine in when it get worse than it is now, lol!

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