Bartolone Pipes?

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What are Bartolone pipes made from? Are they stainless? Any special care needed to keep them looking great? I know its super random, but just curious as I have seen some that look great after years of use and others not so much. Thanks fellas!
 
Raw steel. You have to maintain them as with all raw steel pipes. Stainless steel pipes look good but they are less agile. Oil after every run
 
Great to know. Probably a dumb question, but what kinda oil? Would taking a new pipe and treating it with high temp VHT be a benefit at all? I have also looked into Jet-Hot coatings, just not sure how holding that much heat in via a coating would impact performance on the lil 49cc 2 stroke on the Raminator.

Edit *** After doing some interweb sleuthing...its sounds like that ceramic coating a 2 stroke is not a good idea. Can change the exhausts wave lengths and change its scavenging effect. Thus holding in more heat, makes the pipe act like it has a smaller expansion chamber and thus can have a direct impact on the range of RPM and can cause performance decreases.

So guess I answered my own questions..Bartolone is not coating their pipes for a reason lol.

Also hearing scotch bright pad and WD40 is a preferred application method for uncoated pipes...

Thoughts?
 
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WD-40, would work fine.
But personally, I do not see (or rather, not feel) the heat. So I just wrap my pipes. Then spray a flat black, high temp over my chrome ties. Well actually, over those metal ties, areas where I needed a little duct tape, as these pipes do not wrap like a car engine (nice and neat). Using the standard fiberglass wrapping (to keep heat down) Is certainly my preference.

Granted, I don't use on my 1/7, 1/8, & 1/10 nitros. (which I should, as a small kid may run over and try to pick up those cars). My niece & nephew I can say do not touch, but if a small kid 200+ feet away from me, touched them (if car turned over, or stalled, etc... I would feel bad, that they burned themselves (due to their parents not watching them.........). Granted, not my fault....

EDIT:: I do mean wd-40, after pipes cooled of course. Pretty much most oil lubricants will work fine on stainless (for sitting around, not being used) once heated, you are going to burn off any of those oils. Same with all the oils, others recommend(ed)
 
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I’ve just had all my pipes ceramic coated. Maintaining them is a pain and I’d wrap them anyway so coating has the same effect. Not bothered if there is slight drop in performance, my rigs are way over powered already. 🤣

I even coated my Titanium pipe because I’d rather not melt my cage than have a shinny pipe.

Ceramic coating is nearly the same price as a pipe so I guess that’s why most manufacturers don’t offer it as standard.
 
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