[Mgs] Rusty wire wheels.

[Carl French]

I do not think rechorming would be very good. Dayton only uses stainless on the spokes due to the embrittling of the chroming process. I cant see the spokes but I cant imagine they could not be just blasted and painted the original color.
   
    I wish I had held out for 15's on my daily driver GT. I have 15's on my 67 roadster and love them. 
  Carl French

cyberemp at comcast.net wrote:
  Greetings-0-list.

Along with my TC in-a-box, came four wire wheels. Once chromed, the chrome is 
now chipping and rusting. Given the cost of new 19" wire wheels, I'm wondering 
if these can be salvaged. No spokes are broken that I can see at this point.
I tried sand blasting them, but the remaining chrome is not coming off. 
Any suggestions?

Also, I'm refinishing the No-style wheels on the 74.5. A much easier task.

In a related task, I bought the Saab 15" "carol shelby" wheels someone on the 
list mentioned a few years ago. Took a lot of effort to get the paint off them, 
as sand blasting left marks on aluminium, bead blasting didn't touch the paint 
at all. Had to use Jasco paint removing jell. small wire brushes, gloves, goggles. because jasco 
hurts when it hits your skin. In you eyes, I didn't want to find out.
Had local tireshop mount 195/60R15 Kumho tires I bought through Tire Rack. 
Bought 1/4" wheel spacers through good old J.C.whitney.

Pardon the rambling. Major pain meds today.
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