[Healeys] Wood rimmed Steering Wheel Refinishing

[michael adams]

In this case you may want to do what the antique boat guys do to get a good long living finish.  The sanding and prep work is about the same but where the boat boat guys go different is that they use Smith's CPES (Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer).  This product penetrates the wood and consumes the components that cause rot to begin, this stabilizes your wood.  The second thing this product does is make it weather resistant.  The third is that is provides the best substrate surface to put a finish on that will last.  If you use Varnish or epoxy this prep work makes it last and holds up to rain, UV degradation.  Just a thought, I have done a few wheels this way on another project and they have lasted well without color deterioration.  I also use this product on my 1957 Chris Craft and it holds up the the beating of weather.  Might be overboard for some though.

Good luck,
Max

Hint:  if you go this route make sure you sand, stain then seal if you seal before you stain you will have to start over.



 --- On Tue 03/11, Rick Swain < rjswain at hotmail.com > wrote:
From: Rick Swain [mailto: rjswain at hotmail.com]
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:41:35 +0000
Subject: [Healeys] Wood rimmed Steering Wheel Refinishing

My BN4 came with a wood rimmed wheel - made in France, la Carra I believe. Thefinish was gone in places so I decided to refinish it. I have stripped off thevarnish, or whatever was on it, and am now looking for suggestions on how toproceed and what to use.Any suggestions gratefully accepted.Rick Swain'59 BN4_________________________________________________________________Create a handy button so your friends can add U to their buddy list. Try itnow!_______________________________________________Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.htmlHealeys@autox.team.nethttp://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeysYou are subscribed as maxxadams at excite.comhttp://www.team.net/archive
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