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> wheel blasting question. what media? strip for powdercoat
Aaron Cox
post Jul 18 2006, 03:42 PM
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cost prohibitve im guessing
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post Jul 18 2006, 04:55 PM
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I believe grassroots racing had a project 911 they redid the wheels on. IIRC, they used oven cleaner and elbow grease to prep the wheels. It removed the anodizing and paint.

dont have time to find the article online for ya, hope this helps. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jul 18 2006, 05:02 PM
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I would think that soda would take too long, but I haven't used it so...

I glass bead blasted this wheel and sanded and polished. And if I do say so myself, it was the very nicest polished Fuch I've ever seen. Still. So I don't know why you couldn't use glass if you're going to powder coat.

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post Jul 18 2006, 05:03 PM
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what "grit" of bead did you use...

that looks like a "20 hour" wheel...

btdt...
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post Jul 18 2006, 05:07 PM
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QUOTE(Aaron Cox @ Jul 18 2006, 05:03 PM) *

what "grit" of bead did you use...

that looks like a "20 hour" wheel...

btdt...


I don't remember. And I'll also say that my glass bead was pretty well used at that point, so it was likely very fine.

And this was the "30 hour" wheel.

But I kid you not, it would blind you if you let the sun reflect on it and you looked at it. This thing was BLING!
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post Jul 19 2006, 09:53 AM
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So it seems we don't have concensus on this yet, unless I am missing something.

Any other opinions on this topic?

Thanks.
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post Jul 19 2006, 10:31 AM
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i got some cookies i would like to spruce up......too......one day
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post Jul 19 2006, 11:53 AM
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Hey Aaron,

I've blasted these wheels with glass beads myself, no clue at how coarse, if you enlarge the pic you can see there's some roughness on the surface.
I simply painted over them with some filler primer underneath and a light sanding in between, they turned out rather nice.
If you want mirror finish you should go for something less coarse to save massive sanding time.

good luck

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post Jul 19 2006, 11:55 AM
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And the finished result,
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post Jul 19 2006, 12:00 PM
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Those are the pirelli wheels that VW used only for a few years on the USA Wolfsburg models. Hard to find too. Nice looking wheels. How did you clean them up?
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post Jul 19 2006, 12:03 PM
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Plastic does a great job. I posted a long time ago on the Pboard how I did mine. @$20-25 per wheel and it gets all the anodization off and down to bare alloy.

They actually look good enough to mount when blasted without polishing.
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post Jul 19 2006, 12:22 PM
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Those are the pirelli wheels that VW used only for a few years on the USA Wolfsburg models. Hard to find too. Nice looking wheels. How did you clean them up?


yup they are, '83 and '84 only I believe, in Europe they came on the Golf 1 GTI(rabbit in usa?) and later on some Golf 2 model too I believe. I've got them mounted on my 84 Golf 2.

I first tried paint stripper to no avail, paint too friggin tough. Then I decided to use the media blaster we have at our faculty. The media was glass.

cheers
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post Aug 27 2006, 03:18 PM
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aaron what the heck did you use?
let me know ...i want to redo my cookies.....purple
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post Sep 3 2006, 01:17 PM
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mike can you fill us in on how you got to that finish.....start to finish.....
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