DIY aluminum wheels refinishing

[Drew Boyd]

Eastwoodcompany.com

they have wheel refinishing kits, sandblasting products, and
everything else you may need, not to mention the old favorite, "home
powdercoating kit" that will really starch the wife's shorts if you
try it if you use the oven in the kitchen... :)

I used glass bead when I re-did my BBS wheels for my GLI...



On 5/4/05, Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:
> 
> On May 4, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Louis-Alain_Richard at computerhorizons.com
> wrote:
> > 3b- How, why and where can I have the wheels "anodized" ?
> >
> 
> This says it better than I ever could:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing
> 
> Stock rims such as the BBS's on V8's and 200q20vs have a machined
> lip, which gives them a classy silver look, without the chrome bling-
> bling look.  If you look very closely, you'll see the surface is a
> ridged.  It is clearcoated to prevent oxidation, and the clearcoat is
> what breaks down on many of them, and then the aluminum corrodes or
> reacts with road salt, brake pad dust, etc.
> 
> If you want to see how pretty some machined surfaces can be, look at
> HRE or Kinesis wheels.  Mmm, tasty (they'd better be, given the price!)
> 
> Brett
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