Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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my local machine shop bakes them in an oven used by most machine shops to bake grease and grime dry and then after cooling puts them in a bead blaster which knocks off" all" of the dried grease and grime of completely , leaving a nice clean metal finish with no residue or sandblasted finish. a set usually runs about $100.00 .
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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Lye eats grease and paint. Turns it into soap and goo. Doesn't harm steel no matter how long you leave it in, but it EATS aluminum. After the lye does its magic, pressure wash. Lye doesn't touch rust, so use Evaporust after the pressure washer.
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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I have always just sand blasted, putty fill any pits, sand, prime and paint to match.
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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my local machine shop bakes them in an oven used by most machine shops to bake grease and grime dry and then after cooling puts them in a bead blaster which knocks off" all" of the dried grease and grime of completely. Same here. He bakes them, then locks them into a tumbler to clean them up. Clean surface, not 'pitted' like blasting.
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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I have always just sand blasted, putty fill any pits, sand, prime and paint to match. this would be the easy way. for some reason there are some really bad blasters out there who have ruined the whole industry and left people scared to get anything blasted. Moparts has its experts and they like to say that their process is the best. (which is just might be) but I guess its the difference in doing a 20 year resto or actually just getting the job done in a couple hours. i have blasted hundreds of rims, i don't get media stuck in the seams. I must have just been lucky i guess. i dont knock off number stampings or make some massive surface profile in the steel like everybody is scared of. despite the moparts popular opinion blasting steel wheels will not blow holes through them or cause them to warp. lol
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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You don't need to invest in sand blast equipment or pay somebody to sand blast. As said above, degrease and paint strip. Clean up the paint stripper with mineral spirits, and dip in Evapo-Rust for a day or two. Clean up the Evapo-Rust with mineral spirits and apply a phosphoric acid such as Rust-Cure or Ospho. Clean off excess phosphoric acid with mineral spirits again and paint.
I had planned to get a large air compressor and a big sand blast cabinet, but after working with Evapo-Rust, there's no need. Evapo-Rust isn't cheap, but it's a whole lot cheaper than a large compressor and a big sand blast cabinet. You can buy 5 gallons for $80 from northerntool.com with zero freight cost if you pick up at their store. Even 50 gallons at $800 would cost quite a bit less than a big air compressor. And the results are just as good or better.
I did 5 wheels like this. Works out to $16 a wheel just for the Evapo-Rust. And the Evapo-Rust isn't depleted yet.
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Re: Best Way to Strip and Refinish Steel Rim
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EvapoRust works great but I'll save you even more money. Use vinegar at $1.00 a gallon and leave it in for two days and rust will be gone. I restored a drill press and car parts this way. Just paint or coat quickly before flash rusting.
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