paint stripper on alloys?

[mellow yellow]

i've got some wire wool but its 0000 grade (was for finishing my pool cue) i guess i'll need to get some more abrasive stuff?? what grade would you recommend??

is it possible to buy nitromors in bulk? i bought a small tin which covers 1m square but it nearly all gone and not even done a full wheel yet!

seems like a waste of money getting blasted and powder coated when i add it all up:

wheels £27.00 for all 4 from ebay
courier for wheels £25.00
shot blasting and powder coating  £160.00 
4 new tyres £180.00ish inc fitting and balancing
total = £392.00
and i've seen 16inch anni wheels with tyres go for much less then that fully refurbed 

I'd love to do it all myself though but its gonna be a long process!

[tobybrennan]

i've got some wire wool but its 0000 grade (was for finishing my pool cue) i guess i'll need to get some more abrasive stuff?? what grade would you recommend??

is it possible to buy nitromors in bulk? i bought a small tin which covers 1m square but it nearly all gone and not even done a full wheel yet!

seems like a waste of money getting blasted and powder coated when i add it all up:

wheels £27.00 for all 4 from ebay
courier for wheels £25.00
shot blasting and powder coating  £160.00 
4 new tyres £180.00ish inc fitting and balancing
total = £392.00
and i've seen 16inch anni wheels with tyres go for much less then that fully refurbed 

I'd love to do it all myself though but its gonna be a long process!

thats the problem =/
but with brand new tyres and refurbished wheels you'll get good money for them

not sure about £392 for vr wheels though =/

you got an electric sander?

[mellow yellow]

exactly, overall its a lot of money for some wheels that came standard on a higher model.

I've got a sander but its pathetic and i dont wanna buy another one just for this job. gonna do it as cheap as possible even if it means doing one wheel per month with lots of elbow grease! 

[tobybrennan]

fair enough mate

are the wheels completely standard? colourwise?

and what colour are you spraying them?

[mellow yellow]

yeah all standard colour although one has had a repaint.

i'm thinking anthracite or something similar?

[tobybrennan]

yeah all standard colour although one has had a repaint.

i'm thinking anthracite or something similar?

well i only used nitromorse on my alloys to strip it back to bare metal to polish them up

but if your respraying them, im fairly sure you just have to sand them like enough so the primer sticks better, then primer key etc.

I may be wrong but thats what i was told so thats what i did, and they turned out better than i thought 

message me if you like

[mellow yellow]

yeah thats what i was planning on doing but some of the paint had lifted on all the wheels due to corrosion, so was flaking off anyway and even sanding was leaving join marks between where the standard paint met bare metal, if that makes sense? so even with a few coats of filler primer and a a few coats of paint there would still be visable lines so i thought it would be best to take it all back to bare metal and start again.

i'll take some pictures of what i have to deal with.

[JC]

just spent the last 3 hours stripping my estorils .

nitrowhatever - Pah -

a concoction of Sky Restore and MEK -

 leave for 5 minutes whilist getting high on the fumes -

quick once over with a brush.

Reapply

then wipe off

and straight into the Parts washer.

Its good when your light on management 

[mellow yellow]

how much to do mine chuff