Opinion on painted rims

[7981GS]

First, I spray down the rims with pure Simple Green and take them to a self-serve car wash to hose them down.
Use a scotch-brit pad to polish the spokes / outer rim.
Then, I use white lithum grease and with finger / cotton swabs, apply to the areas that you do not want to get painted.
After the paint dries, wipe off the grease with a rag. (several.)

Stock colors:



Black / gold rim:



Finished B / G rim:



Who needs masking paper and ALL of that work???
Any over-spray comes off with some fine steel wool and elbow grease.

Daniel

[kevbot]

Nice job! I like the gold and black

[7981GS]

Nice job! I like the gold and black

I haven't done the rear wheel/ differential yet:



Daniel

[Mike]

First, I spray down the rims with pure Simple Green and take them to a self-serve car wash to hose them down.
Use a scotch-brit pad to polish the spokes / outer rim.
Then, I use white lithum grease and with finger / cotton swabs, apply to the areas that you do not want to get painted.
After the paint dries, wipe off the grease with a rag. (several.)

Stock colors:



Black / gold rim:



Finished B / G rim:



Who needs masking paper and ALL of that work???
Any over-spray comes off with some fine steel wool and elbow grease.

Daniel

I've heard of people doing something similar with vaseline

[posplayr]

I have done one set of ED wheels by taping off the entire area to not be painted. If you use a safety razor, you can easily trim the tape at the sharp machined edge so no scraping afterward.

Still takes about 1 hour per wheel so that is 2 hours for both wheels; would be more for the snow flake style. I then cleared the whole thing to stop any corrosion.

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showpost.php?p=822407&postcount=22

Ok I did not get as far as I wanted as getting the head and cylinder off and getting all the parts painted was a first priority so I could get the new parts on order.

I did get almost everything remaining that is supposed to be black. All clear coating, inner fender and tool box still remain along with all of the body parts

Wheels took a while; about 1 hour per wheel. If you use a Razer,. you can cut off the tape at the edge so you are not trying to line up the tape, but rather cut it to the edge. Hold the safety razor at an angle and just slice the tape. It makes a nice clean line.






Laugh if you like, but using the painting schedule really helped alot. You can waste a few gallons of paint thinner to just clean out your gun unless you plan it out and minimize how many different loads of paint you have to mix.

Posplayr

[Hammered]

Im in favor of painted rims. Even spokers look good done correctly. An accent color really makes them look that much better though.

[laserred97gt]

I wanted the blacked out look... I like the rims/spokes polised too, jut wanted this for my bike...

[rangerdanger]

laserred your bike is badass.

[SVSooke]

Since this turned into a show of your wheels thread here are mine

polished the aluminum first,then masked off the painted areas.A bit tedious but it was one night in a winter project.


All together with fresh painted hardware.

On the bike.
Just for fun here's the wheels on my SV

[laserred97gt]

laserred your bike is badass.

Thanks. I like it too. I wish I had the scratch to get it painted...

I'll run it like this this year, and paint it next year.

[posplayr]

Since this turned into a show of your wheels thread here are mine

polished the aluminum first,then masked off the painted areas.A bit tedious but it was one night in a winter project.

a little over spray ? I'm guessing it cleaned up easy enough with some acetone

I see this is actually a 750ES, not a 1150; looks like it will be nice

[spyug]

I find its easiest to paint once the tires are mounted. I usually mask off the tire and the rim which I will polish. Once the spokes are painted, I rub the faces down with 320 or 400 grit wet/dry paper with a paint stick as a backer to keep it square.

The hardest part is masking things off.

Good luck with your project and show us what you end up doing.

Cheers,
Spyug

[SVSooke]

a little over spray ? I'm guessing it cleaned up easy enough with some acetone

I see this is actually a 750ES, not a 1150; looks like it will be nice

Yeah kinda missed a proper mask there85 750EF,Canada you know