...I received an awesome deal on 4 late model tacoma rims (16"), but they were in poor shape (thus the deal). Since they were in poor shape cosmetically, I decided I couldn't really hurt them more...
...so I bought a 40# media blaster (filled with glass beeds), built a blasting cabinet to accomodate the wheels, blasted the wheels, filled in the gouges/scratches with JBweld, blasted again for good measure, iron phosphated as the final prep, pre-heated wheels for about 15 min @ 400 degrees, coated with mirror black when surface temp was around 135-150 degrees, back in the oven for another 15-20 min...and WHOALA!!
http://kumar.cruizer.net/pics/wheels/
the center caps are plastic, so I used duplicolor black primer and gloss black paint. Came out to a near perfect match to the powder coat finish. The lug nuts were powder coated as well.
Here are some inline pics (more at site above):
now to do some of the Mini engine parts
later,
Kumar
...so I bought a 40# media blaster (filled with glass beeds), built a blasting cabinet to accomodate the wheels, blasted the wheels, filled in the gouges/scratches with JBweld, blasted again for good measure, iron phosphated as the final prep, pre-heated wheels for about 15 min @ 400 degrees, coated with mirror black when surface temp was around 135-150 degrees, back in the oven for another 15-20 min...and WHOALA!!
http://kumar.cruizer.net/pics/wheels/
the center caps are plastic, so I used duplicolor black primer and gloss black paint. Came out to a near perfect match to the powder coat finish. The lug nuts were powder coated as well.
Here are some inline pics (more at site above):
now to do some of the Mini engine parts
later,
Kumar
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