Completly knackered 18 wheel home refurb NEW painted pics p3

[Sim_Simma]

I am a bit drunk right now so won't go I to detail but I have done a DIY wheel refurbish I have a few tricks and tips for you and a few cheap tools that are a must!!!

Go on then I'm more than willing to learn new things although I know most things now lol. But enlighten me, if you can weren't you talking about setting up with a spray gun at some point? I'm sure I offered advice to you lol. Maybe we can help each other!

Hey I was replacing a clockspring and pulling the fuse board to find the horn relay out on the gfs mums zed earlier after a bottle of wine

[Sim_Simma]

MM is asleep, enjoy your bacon sarny in the morning, a must after a drink!

[Sim_Simma]

Couple of other wheel refurbs I've done:

[aquazi]

Making good progress on those!

My dads old 5 series had those wheels... Luckily in (slightly better condition!)


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[Sim_Simma]

Making good progress on those!

My dads old 5 series had those wheels... Luckily in (slightly better condition!)


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these will look good as new although if I get them in primer today I probably won't get them done til the weekend :/

[Machine monkey]

OK i am sober now and no hangover result

To be fair you know a lot more than me about painting i have no advice for you on that. But i refurbished my m3 wheels. And they had corrosion like yours and i found those little orbital type sander didn't work so well? I brought an attachment for a drill (cant remember the name of the brand?) Its basically a foam wheel on a mandrel that goes into the drill chuck and a sand paper belt fits over the foam. I was able to clean the wheels up really quickly and without that much hard work.

[Sim_Simma]

OK i am sober now and no hangover result

To be fair you know a lot more than me about painting i have no advice for you on that. But i refurbished my m3 wheels. And they had corrosion like yours and i found those little orbital type sander didn't work so well? I brought an attachment for a drill (cant remember the name of the brand?) Its basically a foam wheel on a mandrel that goes into the drill chuck and a sand paper belt fits over the foam. I was able to clean the wheels up really quickly and without that much hard work.

See I was wondering if there would be some sort of drill attachment like that. I was going to use my dremel with the small sanding wheel for the bolt holes but SWMBO has hidden it

so this drill attachment is it basically a bigger version of the ones you would use in a dremel? Don't suppose you have a link for me do you? It would be much appreciated

Have you had a play with painting with a gun yet?

[Machine monkey]

Yep that's a good description of it. Its about 4" diameter. I found that my battery drill wasn't up to the job. Had to resort to the old faithful plug into the wall drill.

I will have a look at lunch time for a link

[Machine monkey]

http://www.screwfix.com/p/flexible-sand ... ndle/10387#

Yeah its expensive for a lump of foam. But it really helped in fact its in my top 10 of tools......

[Carol M]

Good work on those wheels but mainly commenting to say I have 'tea' at night too. Dinner is what the meal is called midday.

[Sim_Simma]

http://www.screwfix.com/p/flexible-sand ... ndle/10387#

Yeah its expensive for a lump of foam. But it really helped in fact its in my top 10 of tools......

Thanks MM, that will come in very handy!

[Sim_Simma]

Good work on those wheels but mainly commenting to say I have 'tea' at night too. Dinner is what the meal is called midday.

I'm glad someone agrees! Seems to be dieing off lol.

[Toe-side]

Looking good. I had forgotten about your metallic green 'Hulk' wheels and how good they looked.
Is that 2 pack paint?
I assume that drum sander attachment MM linked to can be replaced with new standard belts ?

[Machine monkey]

Yeah you can replace them. Brought a few different grads cant remember what off hand.

[Toe-side]

Yeah you can replace them. Brought a few different grads cant remember what off hand.

Thanks MM..... will be buying that 'set up' soon!