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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:49 AM |
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Wheel Restoration Lighting GTs Mk2
Doing up a set of wheels for a friend of mine
thought you might like to see the process.
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:50 AM |
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the wheels were very corroded
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:51 AM |
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Had to soak them in penetrene to remove the center caps.
they had been left out in the rain for a while
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:52 AM |
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After stripping all the wheel weights and caps off i steam blasted them to remove dirt
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:55 AM |
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then Glass Bead blasted them each one taking about 30 minutes or so. This strips the paint and leaves a corrosion free surface back to the raw alloy
material.
only found one small crack on the lip.
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:56 AM |
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now in Aluminium etch primer and undercoat
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 08:57 AM |
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these wheels will have the outer lip and raised vents polished so there off to the metal polisher and will finally be painted in 2 pak
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 09:23 PM |
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Magnesium?........ these are similar to yours arent they dave? the ones on the smoothie?
Adam
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| posted on October 1st, 2004 at 09:42 PM |
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Wow what a difference even with just the steam blasting....very smick Dave 
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| posted on October 2nd, 2004 at 08:00 AM |
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Adz these are Alloy
the only Magnesium wheel i know of are the Origional BRMs... very very light
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| posted on October 2nd, 2004 at 01:05 PM |
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yep
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