Re: Cromadora wheel restoration

[Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>]

> Have I left anything out?

Why yes, Biba, you did! &:-) You forgot to apologize for shamelessly 
flipping sh*t at an innocent bystander (me). How did I get dragged into 
this thread?

As far as wheels go, yeah, I can paint wheels. But I'm lousy at it. What I 
have learned is that the art of getting finely painted wheels has nothing 
to do with buying paint boxes and fancy sprayer units. If you check the 
can of spray paint by painting tester surfaces and determine that the 
paint is not pre-contaminated with dust, you can get incredibly fine 
results just using garden-variety paint cans. You have to be patient and 
work in a fairly clean area at the right temperature. So it seems to me 
you should spend more time pontificating about the actual technique...
 
The fellow who tried to teach me (painting, not pontificating) learned by 
painting hot rods before he had his driver's license. He said you have to 
watch the surface flash as you stroke across. Spray too much and you get 
drips that need to be sanded. Spray too little and you get air. There's a 
fine area where you can see as you spray the shine is coming up and if 
you have the knack of working with that dynamic, then good for you! He 
would do a single stroke all th eway across the surface, pause 30 seconds 
(or so it seemed) and do it again. He applied several of these 
pseudo-moist coats and would then let the paint cure before sanding 
back, tack-papering the dust off, and then putting on more multiple coats. 

I painted my steel wheels (ask Steve Schaeffer what he thinks of them, 
because he had the guts to buy them for winter tires). Used some Schmucks 
silver paint and they turned out just fine! There was a little dust in 
there, but heck, we didn't bother to remove the tires.... I think, though, 
if someone ever waved a set of Turbinas at me and said they were planning 
on painting them, I'd just say "fine" and hand them the Prozac, cuz they'd 
need it afterwards.

Tess don't pick on me McMillan

> Hey, I could come back and talk some more on the subject. Who back there said,
> "They're 'just' rims?" Tess, you should be ashamed. Your GPA just dropped major
> bigtime and furthermore, you're grounded.
> 
> Biba

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