Cleaning brake dust off wheels

[Robert Myers]

At 09:22 PM 12/21/2003 -0500, DGraber460 at aol.com wrote:
>Can't comment on pressure washers as I don't have one, but my neighbor does
>and I see him washing his wheels with a sponge just like I do.
>
>Dennis
>Denver
>"Good judgment is a result of experience, which is often the result of poor
>judgment"

Based on my very limited experience using a pressure washer the chief 
drawback I see for using a pressure washer on wheels is a possible tendency 
for removing any finish coating on the wheels.  If such a coating has any 
crazing or micro-cracks in the surface then that high pressure jet of water 
just might "push" through the crack and lift the finish material right off 
the surface of the metal.  It surely does this on painted wooden surfaces 
where the painted surface is not perfect.  I suspect that a washer which is 
capable of producing higher pressures would be more aggressive in this respect.

If your wheels are not coated then it's likely that a pressure washer will 
do a pretty good job of cleaning wheels.  If your wheels are coated then 
I'd suggest either 1.  that you do some hand scrubbing or 2.  keep the 
washer nozzle at a considerable distance from the wheels while cleaning them.

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9/11 didn't repeal the Constitution.

Bob
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