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[ac427]

To those who have cleaning up these wheel before. Is it best to hand sand the wheel?

 

If i go the power tool route route is the best sort of abrasive to use?

[sonikk4]

Clean up as in remove rust or remove paint?? either way its probably better to get them media blasted if they have no tyres fitted.

 

If the tyres are still on then i would use a twisted wire cup on a grinder to remove the worst then maybe hand sand after to get into the gaps etc.

[ac427]

Clean up as in remove rust or remove paint?? either way its probably better to get them media blasted if they have no tyres fitted.

 

If the tyres are still on then i would use a twisted wire cup on a grinder to remove the worst then maybe hand sand after to get into the gaps etc.

 

Thanks, It's just a bare wheel with a some surface rust and remaining silver paint.

[alpder]

I get mine sand-blasted and powder-coated by a local small powder-coat specialist. Set of five 10" steel wheels £100, including two coats of powder (base and top). No-brainer, compared to hours grinding with a wire wheel, rust and old brake dust in your hair, followed by Hope-erite Smooth which'll show the brush-strokes from day 1 and the start of new rust by day 100.

 

Always sets your teeth on edge, tho, watching the balance-weights go on later.

[stuart bowes]

If the tyres are off already definitely want to focus on the sealing area on the inside of the lip, give that a really good wirebrushing all the way around both edges on each, give it the best chance of actually sealing when they put the new rubber on.  arguably the most important bit to sort out, before the cosmetic side of things.  Tyre fitter probably won't bother (unless you happen to know a good one)

 

If doing myself I'd use a drill with a wirebrush attachment, unlikely you'll do any damage to steel that way

 

saying that I would now go the sandblasting route having prepped and painted a few sets myself, the cost of the paint and all the agro doing it, paying someone to do it right is definitely better

Edited by stuart bowes, Yesterday, 01:45 PM.

[ac427]

If the tyres are off already definitely want to focus on the sealing area on the inside of the lip, give that a really good wirebrushing all the way around both edges on each, give it the best chance of actually sealing when they put the new rubber on.  arguably the most important bit to sort out, before the cosmetic side of things.  Tyre fitter probably won't bother (unless you happen to know a good one)

 

I'd use a drill with a wirebrush attachment, unlikely you'll do any damage to steel that way

 

saying that I would now go the sandblasting route having prepped and painted a few sets myself, the cost of the paint and all the agro doing it, paying someone to do it right is definitely better

 

 

Thanks, Would you go the powdercoat route as suggested above?

[stuart bowes]

I probably would yeah, just a nice good finish, easy to clean, and to be fair the cost of that isn't really so bad when you look at the price of decent spray paint and wet n dry, and your time and effort etc

 

usually they have a spare set of wheels you borrow while they do it but being 10" I'd ring up first and check that.  the logistics of swapping wheels around can be a bit of a pain in the arse obviously

Edited by stuart bowes, Yesterday, 01:46 PM.