Re: Restoring Rims

From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 16:46:22 PST

I have stopped using Rustoleum primer. Apparently they changed something
and now it is not water proof even though they denied this to me. I had some
primed parts outside that started to rust...

I have found Ace HW primer IS water proof.

I also use POR a lot now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "MV" <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Restoring Rims

> If your rims are so rusty that blasting them will remove excess rust that
> is holding on the lock ring....yikes!.. they should be pitched anyway.
> Done properly blasting takes off the paint and virtually no metal.
>
> Dave
>
> 52m37@charter.net wrote:
>> 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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