Bead Blasting Fuchs, without removing the anodizing Options

[bigkensteele]

Does anyone know firsthand what the results will be? Will it just bounce right off the hard anodized surface, or will it look like bead-blasted aluminum.

I have two sets of Fuchs that I want to end up looking similar to an RSR finish. My thought was to bead, blast them, paint the black parts and the clear them.

One set is 951 and has already had the anodizing removed and is part way polished. The other set is a bone stock, but tired set of 911 16s with black painted centers.

So the question is, will they look similar, or do I need to strip the anodizing before blasting?

[porschetub]

Does anyone know firsthand what the results will be? Will it just bounce right off the hard anodized surface, or will it look like bead-blasted aluminum.

I have two sets of Fuchs that I want to end up looking similar to an RSR finish. My thought was to bead, blast them, paint the black parts and the clear them.

One set is 951 and has already had the anodizing removed and is part way polished. The other set is a bone stock, but tired set of 911 16s with black painted centers.

So the question is, will they look similar, or do I need to strip the anodizing before blasting?

Only from my experience,the anodizing is pretty tough ...not sure it will bead blast off,it sands off fairly easily with wet and dry sandpaper however one thing I noticed was where I did a curbing repair the alloy never corroded with the anodizing off and was hardly noticeable,these are very good rims IMO.
You have 951 rims....lucky guy,I myself like the RSR look but to me the silver (?) areas look like a cloudy low sheen anodizing or raw blasted finish and clear finish don't really know what the wheel guys do to get this ????.
Maybe not really a DIY (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)