From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 16:38:10 PST
If your rims are so rusty that blasting them will remove excess rust
Dave
52m37@charter.net wrote:
that is holding on the lock ring....yikes!.. they should be pitched
anyway. Done properly blasting takes off the paint and virtually no metal.
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that if you are sandblasting rims with
> the Budd lock ring the groove the ring locks into should not be blasted. Am
> I dreaming this or is there some reality to this?
> Hal
>
>
>>From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:41:41 -0500
>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>Subject: Re: [MV] Restoring Rims
>>
>>I'd pull of the tires and tubes also - that is really the only way to do
>>that job correctly. Make sure that primer is applied soon after
>>blasting. The steel flashes to rust quickly after blasting. Rustoleum
>>clean metal primer works well. Then top coat with your choice of paints.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>Everette wrote:
>>
>>>I seem to remember a posting some time ago about sand blasting affecting
>>>temper of steel wheels - I did not keep the information, perhaps some
>>>other person recalls this, it was not HMMWV wheels, post was long enough
>>>ago that these were not under discussion, it was wheels from deuce and 5
>>>ton trucks
>>>
>>>Everette
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
>>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:01 AM
>>>Subject: Re: [MV] Restoring Rims
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Aaron
>>>>
>>>>If you want to sand blast your rims, MAAS brothers in Livermore (S.
>>>>Vasco & W Los Positas) will do it for about $20 a rim or $50 if you
>>>>want them powder coated. I had my HMMWV rims blasted and coated with
>>>>a semi-gloss black coat then painted the out side with flat black.
>>>>They came out very nice.
>>>>
>>>>Darrell
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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