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removing chrome from rims
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:39 am
by V8 Middy
I was all set to buy the extra offset rims from procomp but alas they do not clear the brake calipers on a 70 series so cutting and flipping is my only option.
Get rims cut and flipped... easy
Powdercoating... easy
Problem is, the rims are a chrome finish. The powdercoaters gave me details of an elecroplaters to strip the rims but they said its too big for them to do.
Any tricks? Hours with a brush attachment on a power drill???
Re: removing chrome from rims
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:43 am
by Shadow
V8 Middy wrote:I was all set to buy the extra offset rims from procomp but alas they do not clear the brake calipers on a 70 series so cutting and flipping is my only option.
Get rims cut and flipped... easy
Powdercoating... easy
Problem is, the rims are a chrome finish. The powdercoaters gave me details of an elecroplaters to strip the rims but they said its too big for them to do.
Any tricks? Hours with a brush attachment on a power drill???
chrome is very hard and would take quite a long time to remove with a wire wheel.
Perhaps just spend the $$ on some new sunraysiers. $55-$65/rim.
Re: removing chrome from rims
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:05 am
by Goatse.AJ
Shadow wrote:V8 Middy wrote:I was all set to buy the extra offset rims from procomp but alas they do not clear the brake calipers on a 70 series so cutting and flipping is my only option.
Get rims cut and flipped... easy
Powdercoating... easy
Problem is, the rims are a chrome finish. The powdercoaters gave me details of an elecroplaters to strip the rims but they said its too big for them to do.
Any tricks? Hours with a brush attachment on a power drill???
chrome is very hard and would take quite a long time to remove with a wire wheel.
Perhaps just spend the $$ on some new sunraysiers. $55-$65/rim.
x2
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:14 am
by droopypete
swap your rims with someone who does a lot of beach driving, the job is half done for you, they are happy, you are happy, jobs done
Peter
PS, what shadow said x3
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:57 am
by Frankenyota
Hey mate i had some chrome rims sand blasted. The sand will not remove the chrome, instead will etch it which is good enough to paint onto.
Put on some etch primer and paint them, sweet as.
Matt
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:23 pm
by V8 Middy
Maybe thats the go... rattle can and touch up occasionaly