wheel painting

deputy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Karma :

I have just bought 2 second hand wheels off ebay for my bike. They are 3 spoke alloys and could do with cleaning and repainting. Does anybody know where I could get them stripped and repainted cheaply? I have rung a few places and £20-30 seems to be the going rate, was hoping not to have to spend that much.

zzr_peak · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Karma :

i'm not to sure as to where you can go to get them cleaned up cheap. but if it was me i would go and buy a bottle of metal cleaner and have a stab at it myself.
maybe a spray if they need it Very Happy

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

You can do it yourself, it's basically how much you value the time and the end result done by a metal workshop will be better.

Get from B&Q or somewhere a bottle of paint stripper as that takes all the stuff like old paint and general crap off. Then comes the hard bit which is sanding/ rubbing them down with different levels of wet and dry paper. I can't remember what grade you should go down to but it's something like 1500 grade off the top of my head. This is going to take a long time, and you cut corners out of this step and you're messing the end result up basically. Then in a clean and dry place you can spray it with metal paint, then you'll need to put a coat of clear laquer over the top to protect it. You should be able to get more info about this if you're needing it, or with a bit of poking around on google.com for stuff on car paint.

Good luck and happy painting. Thumbs Up

divuk83 · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Karma :

Get them powdercoated. Much better than paint as it doesn't flake off like paint and it looks much nicer. Its not very expensive. Probably about 30squid a wheel for plain colours.

Dave