Look what ive done!!

[jon8oy]

Tryed posting this 3 times and i cant find where its gone last try!!!

Was looking on ebay and come across some polished rims for the sv but after see the price it put me off £380 and still 5 days left, so really was going out of my price range, so i then thought sod it ill do my own and if i do say so myself they look pretty dam GOOD

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00050.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00034.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00054.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00041.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00043.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00045.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00056.jpg

and only cost me £37 for paint plenty of elbow grease autosol and wet and dry :p

[Rich]

Wow they look lubberly :thumright: , and really compliment the blue exhaust. Nice job, now can you do mine please.. :geek:

[fullstop102]

well done that man. they look great.. Better than all blue any day!

Good job.

[plowsie]

Now they look pukka! How long did it all take?

[Steve H]

:smt038 Looking great.
Wow, those Curvys are so much better looking than the Pointys! ;)

[jon8oy]

:cool: Cheers guys it took around 4 hours each wheel that includes flash off time between coats, so not long really plus doing it myself made for more enjoyment:cool:

[dizzyblonde]

i got polished rims on mine aren't they super. yours look rather spiffing

[Luckypants]

Wow, very smart! Now you just need to get Kwack to let you have some of his Autosol mountain to keep them clean!

[jon8oy]

Wow, very smart! Now you just need to get Kwack to let you have some of his Autosol mountain to keep them clean!
LOL yes there is that but worth it:D

[Tomcat]

Am impressed - nice :D

[kwak zzr]

top job there! very well done indeed.

[Alpinestarhero]

That is serioiusly coool

Matt

[micky t]

wow, they look amazing, got to be a job to do on mine now

[therealvw]

They look excellent on the bike.

Was it Sprayed or can you see the brush marks?!?! HEHE
Was the polishing done with any special tool, apart from the Elbow!?

Seriously though. They look great. you should do 'A HOW TO' on them.

[rs_tubby]

mate you should take up this as a job and then u can do mine ;)

[2mths]

Very impressive. More info on what you did and how you did it would be cool for interest if nothing else.

[mister c]

Nice job :) Did mine a few weeks ago they look so much better :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/croozenooze/DSC00477.jpg

[jon8oy]

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i agree:cool:


In ans to how did i do them it was all elbo grease but here is the way i did them:-

Removed wheels 1 at a time paddock stands a must or if you have a spare set of wheels use those.

Had tyres removed removed cush drive and brake discs front and back.

Firstly started off with 240 wet and dry and removed paint from around rim keeping the same direction to prevent sandpaper swirling, once all paint off start again on the rim with 800 wet and dry plenty soapy water and do it again this bringing the rim up smoother.

Then autosol with a semi rough brown scotch pad apply autosol to rim always keeping the same direction, when thouroughly rubbed in so it looks semi shiney go over it with smooth green scotchpad around rim still again in the same direction to prevent swirling, when done go aroung with a cloth polishing to a high shine.
Looks like this:-
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00050.jpg

The rest of the wheel give it a good rubbing down with brown scotchpad to key the surface.

Now with all your rubbing and polishing done get a degrease spray and wipe wheel over after which mask out the area you have polished.

1st coat is a etch primer for alloy apply an even coat over the wheel, give 2 coats 5 mins apart let flash off

2nd coat is the 1st stage colour(dependant on which colour bike is)apply evenly over wheel leaving 5 mins between coats (i gave it about 250ml paint equivalant to 4 coats)

3rd coat is the 2nd stage colour candy clearcoat again apply evenly, the more of this colour you apply the darker the final blue becomes coats 5 mins apart.

4th coat is the 3rd stage clearcoat laquer as the final candy is flashing off start shaking can to mix test the wheel just as its tacky (try it on the masked area) give it a full wet coat of laquer and leave it to dry.1 good wet coat will be enough as it a thick coat be careful not to keep spray in same place as you will get runs then its a lot of messing to get rid.

demask after at least a few hours conditions i did it in were in a warm well ventilated area

so when all done should look like this

masked:-
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00034.jpg

unmasked:-
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/jonboy710/SV%20Pics/DSC00041.jpg

good luck and enjoy doing it i did

john

[2mths]

Thanks jon8oy, very helpful.

Another question if I may? :-) Where did you get your paints from?

[jon8oy]

I got my paint from car colour in stockport who put it into a spray can form.
You can get the service from paints international..

john

[hovis]

but they are blue:confused:






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very nice;)

[jon8oy]

:smt115 And they do yellow paint for yellow curvy's so now you got no excuse not to do yours:smt115

[therealvw]

Thanks for the HOW TO DO, info.

Autosol, hmm wonder if they have that over here in NZ. ALSO, will that work on the forks too, just to get rid of the little chips and dinks? The fork bottoms I mean.

[Samnooshka]

Oooohhhh Shiny :D very nice :D

[jon8oy]

Thanks for the HOW TO DO, info.

Autosol, hmm wonder if they have that over here in NZ. ALSO, will that work on the forks too, just to get rid of the little chips and dinks? The fork bottoms I mean.
If you start the fork bottoms you may as well polish them fully rather than just trying to polish the dinks out, thats my next task to tackle the forks and polish those, but gonna get a spare set do those then i can upgrade the springs and oil while im at it:p

[bobbleheadbarne]

hello im just doing mine the same way but im using nitro mors pain stripper £5.99 from halfords works well and no hard work my question is once all paint has been done and my metal is shiny can i laquer all the wheel to protect the shine on the wheer cheers tony

[Sally]

http://pic.phyrefile.com/s/st/stevanford/2009/11/16/holy20thread20resurrection.jpg

[missyburd]

Oooh like those very much! Just about the same colour as my YBR, fancy doing 2 more? :P

[missyburd]

Oooh like those very much! Just about the same colour as my YBR, fancy doing 2 more? :P

d'oh thread resurrected... grrr.