Thursday, June 6, 2013
Painting cast wheels with their hands
Painting cast wheels rukamiSo their time covering cast wheels tarnish the paint loses its factory appearance. This article was written to help those who are not happy with the status of their CDs, the paint which has lost its former luster, and money for new wheels you do not. Her goal - to tell, both independently with minimal cash outlay, painted alloy wheels and restore them to youth. For a start Take your hands and wear rubber gloves. Now take the disks and follow them carefully mine. When washing, you can use simple household tools: powder, an old sponge, for penetration into hard to reach places you can take an ordinary toothbrush. If something is rubbed with difficulty, such as places with dust from brake pads, then take any cleaner containing acid - it can easily cope with this filth. After cleaning the disc scratches and other defects that become more evident. Scrapes on the rims can be eliminated in the following ways, choose: - a file, rather tough and radical method - sandpaper with a fine-grained, rather dreary exercise, take a long time - The best way to grinding - drilling machine, if you happen to have a sim miracle tool - certainly use it! You can also combine all the above mentioned methods, ranging from the "rough" and ending with "soft". Handle all the defects, remove chipped paint with sandpaper, grind the end it all a drill. Do not be afraid to remove too much of the old paint, primed with all the consequences will be ustraneny.Kogda you polished wheels properly and you are satisfied with their appearance, clean them from dust and degreased. Degrease they can be absolutely any solvent: acetone, "White Spirit" and even a means for removing with nail polish. Now, after a complete cleaning, we must find a place where, in fact, we proceed to the main - priming and painting. You can use a simple bucket, of course, if you are not lying around the house a special berth for coating disks, which is hardly possible. Primer. One liter cans should be enough for all four discs. Gruntuem tripled. After drying, one coat before applying the next grind bumps. You can use the good old sandpaper or some coarse cloth. Painting. There may be difficulties, most importantly the right to follow the instructions. The ideal distance for the spray cans of paint is about 50-70 centimeters. Again plot the three layers, between which produces grinding. Polishing is best soaked in water nulevkoy. Varnished. Here we reach the final stage of the return of the factory gloss cast disks. It will take two or three banks. Luck also be applied in three layers and also with an intermediate grinding with moistened nulevki. Thus, we have saved on buying new cast wheels and expensive painting in the old service center, as well as purchased, no doubt, a valuable experience that can be useful in the future. And now rather run and try on the updated drives your darling! Good luck!
