powey
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
Location: Gwent, South Wales
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Today I made a start on refurbing my alloy. This had the most curbing out of the 5 that I have.
I rubbed it down using a small hand sander and a 150 grit disk.
I then went about fillering the curb marks from the alloy face and lip.
I used the 150 grit disk to rub the filler down. By simply rubbing the paper together it gave off about a 3-400 grit.
After rubbing the filler down I started to spray some primer. This then highlighted some pinholes which I missed so a quick dab of red putty soon sorted this.
Here is the wheel in its current state. Will update when I start to lay some color
[Edited on 13-05-2007 by powey]
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Dean B
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Registered: 23rd Aug 06
Location: Lincolnshire
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Did you use etch primer first? Then over coat it with normal grey primer. I made the mistake of not doing this, because it's alloy, the paint didn't take the the metal and ending up looking crap after a couple of months 
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powey
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Its the first ive heard of etch primer, This is only going to be the spare so ill have to get a few cans ready for the 4 others
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antscorsa
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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if i were you id grind down the no.s inside and also smoothin where theres a step for the cover, if your not having the cover that is
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powey
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
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antscorsa keeping the covers  good idea though
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