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Post by kscustom on Jun 16, 2011 21:35:16 GMT -5
The place I plan to go did my scooter frame they where great about prepping holes/nuts ect. The bearings is more what I was curious about. I just have to figure out colors, wheels if the rest of the stuff is cheap enough and they can.
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Post by grepper on Jun 17, 2011 9:43:04 GMT -5
Shakernorm covered it pretty well. I have the cast wheels on my bobber powder coated. I totolly stripped them, stripped the paint, bearings out and everything. The powder coater also hit them with a sand blaster, then baked them to burn off any crud/oil. Then they masked them as Norm said. Then a layer of silver and clear on top. They look great, coating is real tough. I put new bearings in, had a bike shop mount and balance the wheels. The bike rides straight and smooth at any speed.
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Post by ShakerNorm on Jun 17, 2011 17:58:32 GMT -5
I did basically the same thing as grepper did - but with spokes - so I had to unlace them, and plug all the holes for the spokes. What a pain! - almost as bad as re-lacing and truing them! In the end - it was worth it, though.
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Post by tonyc2me on Jun 17, 2011 18:41:28 GMT -5
Norm you really do not have to plug the holes. They do not do this at Buchanan's I asked when I did mine. Tony C.
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Post by Chuckwagon on Jun 18, 2011 6:52:37 GMT -5
The anodizer that was going to do my rims determined they couldn't be anodized, so they powdercoated them instead, which was plan B. Only problem was they didn't mask most of the critical parts... one being the steel insert that the brake shoes ride on in the rear hub, or the brake disk fitting on the front hub. The best removal tool is tal-strip aircraft stripper. worked like a charm, but still a lot of extra work. Mercifully, they remembered to mask the bearing ports.
The spoke holes, of course, weren't plugged/masked, but that wasn't a problem when I relaced the wheels. I was told that the powdercoat will wear under the spokes, so more frequent truing will be needed.
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