I have a set of TR6 wire wheels that came out of a turf shed, not great condition but salvageable I think, hope so anyway. They are round and balance able, I checked before I started, but suffer from some quite heavy corrosion pitting in one wheel and some dings and dents in 2 others. I'm trying to address the heavy pitting with what we might call some careful metal sputtering using a welder, if that works out OK I'll post something with photos later. Last night I set about straightening out the dings and dents in the rims, didn't want to start hammering as I figured it could cause more damage and be even harder to repair so decided to try pressing the rims with a bearing press, I think it worked a treat (straw shows finished rim after exercise) and was very controllable so no collateral damage to repair at all. Just an idea, maybe it's old 🎩 but it pressed my buttons anyway 🙄🙄.
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Silver or possibly black either will look lovely.
That's absolutely class looking 😮
Thanks Derek, I cant make my mind up on the silver or black tbh, the black is interesting and a little bit different, equally the traditional silver looks good. I guess thats the good news, either is going to look fine!
There was some heavy pitting from corrosion on the rim of one of the wheels in particular and to a second one to a lesser degree. I mentioned that I was going to see how I got on with a kind of crude metal sputtering process with weld metal one the worst wheel, i could have used filler and it likely could work but I feared that on a wheel it would just crack off and also with the heat it would close the door on plastic coating if I chose to go down that road. This process worked out not too bad, certainly I can live with it, its not perfect but it wont fall out in potholes and it can be heated in an oven, couple of photos attached, the photo was nearly at the end of the process so doesnt look too bad but it was quite extensive and boring. However it is very time consuming so I'm not going to do the second wheel this way, the pitting is much less pronounced and I think it will largely disappear with a high build primer, the cost for that one wheel is probably now at €15k in labour
but thats classic cars for you, recovering old shite that could have been bought as a repro from China for a quarter of the price. Ready for paint now so have to decide, colour and method, I dont think I'll go plastic coating so most likely a painted finish, three choices there, grey/metal colour that Triumph offered originally, black, or a rank outsider but I have seen it done on Healeys and it looked good, body colour, in this case red.
Looking forward to seeing these on the car, it will look amazing 👍
Nice bit of work there Niall well done - has the Fiat gotten shelved for the moment ?
Ah just mixing things up a bit, I'm gonna put these on the TR3 so I'd love to have that done for the summer.