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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Fuchs Article at French site

Posted by: Bleyseng Nov 1 2005, 10:36 AM

Site has some good pics about Fuchs rims and diagrams about construction.

http://www.flat4ever.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=488

Posted by: Aaron Cox Nov 1 2005, 10:41 AM

if i could only read.....french.

Posted by: Rockaria Nov 1 2005, 02:51 PM

Just Babel Fish it!

http://world.altavista.com/

Use it to translate a web page. Just enter the site link in the spot and choose French to English or whatever:

CODE
http://www.flat4ever.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=488

Not perfect, but you can get the gist of it... Cool!

Posted by: Bleyseng Nov 1 2005, 03:21 PM

What you can't read French??

Posted by: thesey914 Nov 1 2005, 03:39 PM

So THATS how one achieves a nice smooth curve when painting the 'petals' -use electrical tape
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Posted by: Vacca Rabite Nov 1 2005, 05:19 PM

QUOTE (thesey914 @ Nov 1 2005, 04:39 PM)
So THATS how one achieves a nice smooth curve when painting the 'petals' -use electrical tape
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I thought the same thing when looking at the pictures.

I may just have to try that out on my wheels.

Zach

Posted by: GeorgeRud Nov 1 2005, 10:43 PM

There's no way that the wheels were painted that way originally, they had to be dipped to get the pattern, which explains the lack of paint on the back of the spokes. I often thought that the easiest way would be to find an appropiate sized bucked, enough paint, and simply dip them to the correct depth. No masking and a perfect line every time.

I've never seen a picture or heard from anyone who ever saw them painted at Fuchs, but any other way that this would have been possible on a production line?

Posted by: r_towle Nov 1 2005, 10:54 PM

I just assumed that the wheels where entirely painted, then the front was sanded/buffed off the petals.

Lack of paint on the rear is simple with a stand that blocks off the holes in the wheels.

JMHO