Deep dish alloy refurb (by hand)
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:34 am
well here is proof that you don't need expensive tools to refurb alloys with polished dishes, if you have the determination and the courage to strip and sand them (took me a while to build it up).
I've never done anything like this before but was sick of the state of my RH AD Cups, which used to be beautiful (in my eyes anyway).
My sister totally wrecked one of them moving my car
and the other one I unfortunately smacked off a curb in the snow. They didn't look to bad initially but after a winter of poor weather and loads of salt on the roads, they were looking very sorry for themselves.
The time had come to bite the bullet and have a bash at sorting them out. Here is what the looked like prior:
Firstly, I nitromors'd the lacquor (sp?) off them, which was probably the scariest step for a newb like me.
I then scraped it all off thoroughly, washed the rim down and started sanding away with P240 wet and dry.
Once the worst was off I sanded again with P800 wet and dry
I then sanded with P1200 wet and dry, polished with meguiars NXT all metal polysh (hate how they spell it with a Y) and put autoglym super resin polish on top of that.
and here is the other wheel which was really bad as well, if not worse (forgot to take before pics unfortunately)
i've only done the outer lip at the moment as it was the bit that needed the most work. going to have a bash at the rest of the dish afterwards but need to make sure I don't cut in to the main wheel paintwork with the nitromors (any tips on doing that?)
Took roughly 4 hours per wheel of intense sanding to get them like that (have the stained/cut/bleeding fingers to prove it!) very pleased with the overall finish though.
Will seal them with jeffs prime/acrylic once it arrives (hopefully tomorrow)
I've never done anything like this before but was sick of the state of my RH AD Cups, which used to be beautiful (in my eyes anyway).
My sister totally wrecked one of them moving my car
and the other one I unfortunately smacked off a curb in the snow. They didn't look to bad initially but after a winter of poor weather and loads of salt on the roads, they were looking very sorry for themselves.The time had come to bite the bullet and have a bash at sorting them out. Here is what the looked like prior:
Firstly, I nitromors'd the lacquor (sp?) off them, which was probably the scariest step for a newb like me.
I then scraped it all off thoroughly, washed the rim down and started sanding away with P240 wet and dry.
Once the worst was off I sanded again with P800 wet and dry
I then sanded with P1200 wet and dry, polished with meguiars NXT all metal polysh (hate how they spell it with a Y) and put autoglym super resin polish on top of that.
and here is the other wheel which was really bad as well, if not worse (forgot to take before pics unfortunately)
i've only done the outer lip at the moment as it was the bit that needed the most work. going to have a bash at the rest of the dish afterwards but need to make sure I don't cut in to the main wheel paintwork with the nitromors (any tips on doing that?)
Took roughly 4 hours per wheel of intense sanding to get them like that (have the stained/cut/bleeding fingers to prove it!) very pleased with the overall finish though.
Will seal them with jeffs prime/acrylic once it arrives (hopefully tomorrow)
