Re: how can i make my teardrops shine.... (fwd)

[Trevor <pmarshal@uoguelph.ca>]

this is from Ryan...


ive seen one club H20 member take those 7-spoke 13" alloys and sand 
them down, then with very fine sandpaper get a beautiful shine, then 
hti it with clearcoat, the rims looked great. Teardrops would 
probably be a pain because of allthe holes but they can certainly be 
sanded down and clearcoated with the same results. I tried a synth. 
brush to one of my center caps and that was not pretty. Don't use a 
pneumatic sander either as it will sand away too much metal. Any 
bodyshop should be able to sand them down and even repaint or clear 
coat them for $50 a rim.

if you polish them enough with fine sandpaper you can get them to 
shine almost like chrome.(but they dont have that chromie look)

 Ryan


> Problem would be removing the original clearcoat before sanding them and
> clearcoating again afterwards. I would think leaving them with no
> protection would be asking for trouble because when I had some td's on a
> GTI the clearcoat would peel back and the exposed aluminium would get
> attacked by corrosion immediately. Same thing is currently happening with
> my BBS RS'.
> The finishing of the aluminium might be fun - sanding and buffing with
> brasso or something similar would yield nice
> results...temporarily that is.
> 
> -Trev
> 86 8v
> 
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Riley McDowall wrote:
> 
> > At 9:10 pm -0500 15/12/98, Bryan Brannigan wrote:
> > >What about wire brushing them, and clear coating them yourself???? or is
> > >that a completly insane idea?
> > 
> > I suppose you could do that, but will a wire brush leave a finish you like?
> > I guess you could polish them or whatever after... the main thing, though,
> > is that wheel refinishers bake the rims after painting them.  I dunno what
> > kind of clearcoat they use, either, but I suspect it's something that
> > requires hi-temp curing?
> > 
> > 
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