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Polishing Wheels
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:55 pmby esie
Has anyone polished their wheels? How did you go about it?
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:43 pmby FrogZ
Send em south or buy yourself a carton of bourb', heaps of sheets of different grade sandpaper (wet n dry) and start rubbing and finish with a quick polish (if the missus still does that sort of thing)
ps. you WILL burn all your finger tips....
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:10 pmby jpbikeboy
what he said. It's a shit job. It'll take you a couple of days unless you,ve got a die grinder and the right polishing wheels. Polishers charge about $800 and it's about right considering the work that goes in to it.
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:13 pmby red_dave
Esie, my mate Bruce got his done through the dodgy bike shop in Moss st...
I'd rather not mention which of the shop it was but it turned out to be quite a good job and from memory was only a few hundred for both wheels...
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:29 pmby ttc
Anne if it's outers only I'll give the name and number of a legend
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:02 pmby Nafz750
Anne, Matts metal polishing did my z750 for about 350 iirc.
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Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:19 pmby petro
Have a look here Anne it might be some help, just check whether your wheels are painted or powder coated, I'm not sure if it makes a difference.
http://www.riderforums.com/showthread.p ... ing+wheels
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Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:18 pmby zbeast
I did the outer edges of my wheels a while ago and only had to use paint stripper and autosol. They machine the edges after casting the wheel so the finish underneath the paint is pretty good and doesn't take much cleaning up. Just be sure to mask up the bits you don't want to strip. If you want to do the centres as well it is much harder and does involve lots of wet & dry and elbow grease.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:05 pmby L3raven
well get them sand blasted first them start with 800 grade and work ur way down to 1200 fine i think make sure u use plenty of water then use brasso to finsh it up. try here for tips.
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/ASF_HT_polish.asp
cheers.
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Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:53 pmby PrawnStar
zbeast wrote:I did the outer edges of my wheels a while ago and only had to use paint stripper and autosol. They machine the edges after casting the wheel so the finish underneath the paint is pretty good and doesn't take much cleaning up. Just be sure to mask up the bits you don't want to strip. If you want to do the centres as well it is much harder and does involve lots of wet & dry and elbow grease.
What paint thinner did you use zbeast?
Re: Polishing Wheels
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Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:18 pmby Lucky
esie wrote:Has anyone polished their wheels? How did you go about it?
Just have them anodized.... Its a hell of alot easier and they are sooo easy to clean. You dont need to worry about polishing them coz all they need is a wipe over with a soapy sponge (and a shammy if your anal enough) and there done!