I thought it about time for me to contribute to this forum; what better way than a good old alloy refurb?
First, I obtained a single wheel from a very kind gent via this site - as we use the car everyday, have a 'spare' allows me to rotate the refurb process without putting the car out of action.
Kit Wise:
BD workmate with cunningly positioned oil heater (close radiator type) underneath to provide micro-heating enviro.
Dremel (not necessary, small and very small file would easily suffice).
Wooden sanding block ( soft/wooden corner a must for working the wheel contours)
Wet/Dry: 2000, 600, 400, 250
Chemical metal (other stuff is available)
Oven Pride (the dogs' for cleaning up the brake dust stained lacquer)
Surgical gloves (loads of them)
Cheap paint brush
Washing up liquid
Nail polish remover (post wash, pre-paint prep/clean)
Etch primer (for exposed alloy after sanding process)
Wurth primer.
Wurth alloy match top coat.
Wurth lacquer.
Clip on can trigger (a must IMO, much better 'flow' at wrist)
Duel filter mask (better than nothing & very effective TBH)
Wheel 01
Initial task was to clean the grotty mess and get down to check all the gouges and scrapes. Local garage, awesome, removed the rubber free of charge; I was thinking of doing this with the tyre in place. Although it's nice to work with just the alloy, for the next wheel I'll just pop the bead off I think.
Below are a few images showing the degree of dent-age & scrape-age.
So, using an old paint brush I got stuck in with the Oven-Pride - definitely wear old (long-sleeve) cloths and protective eye-ware (for the entire refurb process actually, nothing more valuable than ur eyes...H&S talk now over). The overpride cleansing revealed a hidden secret! .......the wheel had indeed been refurbed before as can be seen in the images below. Not a huge worry, but the seller did not mention this fact (might have been unaware to be fair as it was difficult to tell....however on getting it home I did suspect it due to the 'chipping' of the paint at the rash sites).
All that was require was to take the paint down to the grey powder coating. The whole wheel was not powder coated, and you can see the top coat over-spray into the inside alloy surface (images below).
Wheels Post Ovenpride Clean
.......reached limit, hold on....
First, I obtained a single wheel from a very kind gent via this site - as we use the car everyday, have a 'spare' allows me to rotate the refurb process without putting the car out of action.
Kit Wise:
BD workmate with cunningly positioned oil heater (close radiator type) underneath to provide micro-heating enviro.
Dremel (not necessary, small and very small file would easily suffice).
Wooden sanding block ( soft/wooden corner a must for working the wheel contours)
Wet/Dry: 2000, 600, 400, 250
Chemical metal (other stuff is available)
Oven Pride (the dogs' for cleaning up the brake dust stained lacquer)
Surgical gloves (loads of them)
Cheap paint brush
Washing up liquid
Nail polish remover (post wash, pre-paint prep/clean)
Etch primer (for exposed alloy after sanding process)
Wurth primer.
Wurth alloy match top coat.
Wurth lacquer.
Clip on can trigger (a must IMO, much better 'flow' at wrist)
Duel filter mask (better than nothing & very effective TBH)
Wheel 01
Initial task was to clean the grotty mess and get down to check all the gouges and scrapes. Local garage, awesome, removed the rubber free of charge; I was thinking of doing this with the tyre in place. Although it's nice to work with just the alloy, for the next wheel I'll just pop the bead off I think.
Below are a few images showing the degree of dent-age & scrape-age.
So, using an old paint brush I got stuck in with the Oven-Pride - definitely wear old (long-sleeve) cloths and protective eye-ware (for the entire refurb process actually, nothing more valuable than ur eyes...H&S talk now over). The overpride cleansing revealed a hidden secret! .......the wheel had indeed been refurbed before as can be seen in the images below. Not a huge worry, but the seller did not mention this fact (might have been unaware to be fair as it was difficult to tell....however on getting it home I did suspect it due to the 'chipping' of the paint at the rash sites).
All that was require was to take the paint down to the grey powder coating. The whole wheel was not powder coated, and you can see the top coat over-spray into the inside alloy surface (images below).
Wheels Post Ovenpride Clean
.......reached limit, hold on....
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