Recut the Lip

[Coops]

decided to have a crack at recutting the polished lip on my williams wheels today

got fed up with trying to sand through a thick layer of laqcuer by hand so cracked out the power belt sander

then used 100 grit wet and dry and a flat block of wood to sand it all to flat finish again

thats as far as i got inbetween williams 3 chopping up

next i'll work down the grades to around 1200 grit and see what kind of finish i get, then relaqcuer it!

cheers

Ben

[zmaster2k]

yup get that fine paper out, then autosol as if your life depended on it!

[1995clio16v]

Good work. Did this on my R19 wheels, but found if you dont keep ontop of the bare metal with autosol, like weekly, they pit to **** and quickly go shagged!

[Coops]

thats why i intend to laqcuer over the polished finish, no autosol

[McPikie]

thats why i intend to laqcuer over the polished finish, no autosol

exactly what I did with my old valver rims

[Wobba]

Looks good there badger-boy!

[Jamie.]

Seen the vid of that guy polishing wheels by jacking his car up and getting the wheels spinning at 30mph... He had his hand on the wheel with a polishing cloth. Saves effort I guess and pretty safe.

[Coops]

good to sand like that too as you get the striations in the right orientation, cleaner smoother finish :D

[Patrick_g46]

[quote="Jamie."]Seen the vid of that guy polishing wheels by jacking his car up and getting the wheels spinning at 30mph... He had his hand on the wheel with a polishing cloth. Saves effort I guess and pretty safe.[/quote

If you were careful enough doing it, then why not!

Also be careful that the paint just next to the polished edge does not start to flake back. You said you plan to lacquer it when you have finished but as far as i know, it is very difficult to get lacquer to stick to a polished metal?

[Wobba]

[quote="Patrick_g46"]

Seen the vid of that guy polishing wheels by jacking his car up and getting the wheels spinning at 30mph... He had his hand on the wheel with a polishing cloth. Saves effort I guess and pretty safe.[/quote

If you were careful enough doing it, then why not!

Also be careful that the paint just next to the polished edge does not start to flake back. You said you plan to lacquer it when you have finished but as far as i know, it is very difficult to get lacquer to stick to a polished metal?

Yea, to get lacquer to stick right you need to use some kind of priming stuff apparently.