LX450 - Wheel Rim Rework

[Beast of Berlin]

Just could not take it anymore...

 

[Beast of Berlin]

besser than before...

 

[COS80]

Viele besser!

 

[Kernal]

@Beast of Berlin : can you describe the complete process the shop did on your wheels ie: strip (what type of chemical/time), ?bead blast, primer, paint (2K catalyzed?), machine the face, clear coat?

Looks good.

 

[petegangies]

I had a set of old rims heavily oxidised off my 79 Escort, peanut shell blasted and they looked new again. I wonder how a set of these would turn out if you had something like that done?

 

[azrider]

pics look amazing, but details is what we want. Did you do it yourself or have a company do it?

 

[petegangies]

@Beast of Berlin : can you describe the complete process the shop did on your wheels ie: strip (what type of chemical/time), ?bead blast, primer, paint (2K catalyzed?), machine the face, clear coat?

Looks good.

looks like the face has been machined.. one of the pics has all the shards of metal around it still mounted in the lathe space.

 

[Marvelicious]

pics look amazing, but details is what we want. Did you do it yourself or have a company do it?

Well, if you've got a lathe sitting around that can handle a 16" wheel (and that looks like it has room to spare), you really aren't operating at a "DIY" level, even if you do it yourself. That's not a hobby lathe.

 

[Beast of Berlin]

@Beast of Berlin : can you describe the complete process the shop did on your wheels ie: strip (what type of chemical/time), ?bead blast, primer, paint (2K catalyzed?), machine the face, clear coat?

Looks good.

Stripping, aluminum oxide blasting, priming, liquid paint, CNC turning with total feed 1mm, clear powder coating, finished.
In between, cleaning and masking, and multiple curing cycles.
No DIY... fully-skilled shop-work

 

[Beast of Berlin]

Chemical Paint Stripping

 

[Beast of Berlin]

Aluminium oxide blasting results in a rough surface

 

[Beast of Berlin]

Primer Paint

 

[Beast of Berlin]

After the primer got out of the oven, churing... this is after appling the paint

 

[Beast of Berlin]

cnc-turning - 1mm feed in total

 

[Beast of Berlin]

clear powder coating and the into the oven again

 

[Beast of Berlin]

Out of the oven, finish... we could not extactly detect the orginal dark in the back structur and have choosen another easy accessable but very similar color shade... 5 rims for EUR 1950.-

 

[Kernal]

Was the paint 2k ie: was a hardener (additive) added to the primer/paint? 2k clear coat sprayed over the wheel after machining?

 

[Beast of Berlin]

Some aluminium ersion could not get removed