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JDMBeau
10-08-2005, 07:55 PM
can ya guess what im doing

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/5/web/365000-365999/365304_302_full.jpg
Repost Squintz
10-08-2005, 08:40 PM
NO...? :confused:
MachNU
10-08-2005, 09:35 PM
Somethign that moves and has 4 wheels and cna go places? :confused:
JDMBeau
10-08-2005, 10:32 PM
im polishing the lip on my rota slips

i love bronze and polished lip...and they dont have a verison of the slipstream...so decided to so a little custom work...but doing it all by hand is kicking my ass on just one wheel so far....next 3 im gonna tape off, and use aircraft stripper on just the lips
Spyder
10-08-2005, 10:44 PM
im polishing the lip on my rota slips

i love bronze and polished lip...and they dont have a verison of the slipstream...so decided to so a little custom work...but doing it all by hand is kicking my ass on just one wheel so far....next 3 im gonna tape off, and use aircraft stripper on just the lips

Test that on something before you toast the finish on a wheel with it.. it has been my experiance that... aircraft remover >tape
JDMBeau
10-08-2005, 10:48 PM
oh yea, im covering it in about 3 layers of painters tape really thick around the lip, and then 2 layers of duck tape, and probally just like 2 layers of painters tape around the main part of the wheel, and cut some cardboard for it.

im just not looking foward to the polishing process...its gonna own me, i probally have about 3 hours in just half of the wheel just getting the powder coating off, and sanding with 220-400-800 still gotta do 1200-2000 and then start polishing
Sleepin Hatch
10-08-2005, 11:15 PM
what sandpaper grit did you do for that? plan on polishing my bronze group ns
JDMBeau
10-08-2005, 11:30 PM
well the bonze coating is VERY easy to get off, but the primer they use dosnt want to come off....i was using 60 grit, and then going back over it with 120, 220, 400 dry and then 400 went, 800 dry-wet 1200 dry- wet and then 2000 to finish it off...then im going with mothers polisher and polishing the fuck out of them

probally about 2 weeks from now ill be done spending a few hours a day on them
JDMBeau
10-09-2005, 04:35 PM
http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/5/web/365000-365999/365304_306_full.jpg

crappy camera phone pic...thats wet sanded with 2000 grit....still gotta polish them, but im pretty happy with the look
Sleepin Hatch
10-09-2005, 05:24 PM
well the bonze coating is VERY easy to get off, but the primer they use dosnt want to come off....i was using 60 grit, and then going back over it with 120, 220, 400 dry and then 400 went, 800 dry-wet 1200 dry- wet and then 2000 to finish it off...then im going with mothers polisher and polishing the fuck out of them

probally about 2 weeks from now ill be done spending a few hours a day on them

so all you did was sand em down with the following grits to get to where your at now?
JDMBeau
10-09-2005, 05:56 PM
yea, you did dry, then wet, with the wetordry 3m paper
JDMBeau
10-10-2005, 12:15 AM
ta da

with like 30 minutes of polishing

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/5/web/365000-365999/365304_307_full.jpg
fawk_you
10-10-2005, 10:14 AM
wow, very nice. hmmmmmmmm wanna work on mine now? :D