Daz3
Zorg Legend
Looks great Sean did you do all the sanding with a grinder upto 3000 or did you do the finer grades by hand? I'm interested as I'm looking at splitting mine and maybe polishing the rims. Thanks
I don't know much about laquer and rims except that on mine, especially the rears the laquer continuously got chipped away by flying grit from the road and then started a wonderful series of corrosion spots that looked like miniature snails were under the clear coat leaving horrible trails(!).Thanks Conrad, yes I will be clear coating them with a lecleur product that is designed to stick to almost anything, even glass apparently.
I only used the grinder with a strip and clean disc, the rest was done by hand, however today I used an orbital sander which is a lot faster, the green is acid etch primerLooks great Sean did you do all the sanding with a grinder upto 3000 or did you do the finer grades by hand? I'm interested as I'm looking at splitting mine and maybe polishing the rims. Thanks
Thanks for that Dino, I am considering just leaving them un-coated.I don't know much about laquer and rims except that on mine, especially the rears the laquer continuously got chipped away by flying grit from the road and then started a wonderful series of corrosion spots that looked like miniature snails were under the clear coat leaving horrible trails(!).
So when I redid them I left the lips bare aluminum and just polish them periodically instead.
That's a good transformation mate, hope all goes well.Well I surprised myself today, I really fancied having the rims on the 108s polished rather than painted but they are heavily curbed so I got stuck in with a hand grinder with a strip and clean disc, this quickly removed the ally back enough to get rid of the curb marks but left its own damage, so I started with 120 grit and worked my way down to 3000, then used g3 compound, it looked polished but just lacked sharpness, had a dig in the cupboard and found some autosol, gave it a go and it now looks like chrome, I'm really impressed as its the look I want to go with the gold inner,
its time consuming but well worth it, View attachment 27872 View attachment 27873 View attachment 27874 View attachment 27875 View attachment 27876 View attachment 27877
I get a buzz out of restoring old stuff, I found an old lock knife in my shed a few months ago, it was all corroded and seized, I spent about 5 hours in total sorting it out and for the life of me, I havn't got a clue where it is nowYour keen, Sean! What a job!
Good thinking, I was considering that as a body colour at one point, I could do it with a mat finishWhat about bmw sparking graphite?