Hey, I have been looking for reputable NC sources that restore or refurbish steel and alloy wheels. I'm in Greenville area so closer the better but willing to travel as well. Any idea of what a wheel - Steel, Alloy - costs to do?
Wheel restoration/refurbishing in NC?
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Around Charlotte the prices for blasting and powder coating are around $100 each. That does not include repairing any gouges, scrapes, etc. blasting a wheel without powder coating runs between $25 and $65 each. You paint them yourself. I just priced all this recently and decided to just do it all myself. Before / during / after pic:
I would think so. Size probably has more bearing on price than anything.
Yeah it can get expensive, I used to be able to do it on the cheap for ONSC members when I worked in that business and even a little after through contacts afterwards. Maybe ONSC should buy a blaster and rent it out for cheap. 
It's not the blaster that is the problem as much as having a compressor that can keep up.
No doubt... our compressor and tank combo was the size of a 27 foot box truck. It powered a retread plant, 20 tire fill stations, 2 bead blasters and whatever else we had running at the same time.
FWIW. Alloys were more in HP at unique coatings. Something about allowing the aluminum to offgas after the prebake before coating could applied. It may be a cast vs forge AL thing as well. I didnt follow up with it and went the rattle can rescue route.