The Cal-look Lounge

 hy lounger i just came from the outside where I have just carried out a test of polishing on a crestline which was as the spoke on the picture, I know there are still black spots and one still sees the sandpaper
i've only just work with 80 ,120 , 240 paper  and I find that the result is already not too badly  ::) but i kwon there's still a lot of work before arriving to a good work of or this subject
I would like that you give me your councils for a good work and result thank you in advance all loungers


rgd
speedwell  ;)

    

don't we all  ;) ;D

Hi mate,
I`ve done alloy rims by fitting them to the car, jacking it up and running it in gear - lets the car do 90% of the work!
Wear gloves & use well lubricated wet & dry sandpaper, don`t be scared to start with 80 grit to get rid of bad marks or pitting
Cheers,
Kev

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kev  ;thanks for the good idea but i don't have the engine in my car at the moment

Hi Fabian, it looks like the holes are into the metal. ::)
You cant polish them away.. I think..

Most of the Time when the wheels are pitted like that sometimes you can take them down to get rid of them but most of the time the more you try to sand them out the bigger the pits get.

I did that with an old Berg shifter handle. I chipped off all the powder coating to find pitting, so I sanded the damn thing for hours, put it to a buffing wheel and the pitting looked bigger. So I put it in the parts tumbler at my machine shop and put it back on.

Hi Fabian,  ;)

I've a restore set of 5.5 and 6" deep Fuchs which where in a very poor conditions... 2 of them needed to be welded...

I've use Sandpaper.

Grind 80 without water to remove scratches.

Then grind 150, 240, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000 with water... Always change the water you use when you change the type of sandpaper. I's important.

After that, a take a drilling machine with cotton disc and polishing compound.

For the last touch, I used Belgom Alu.

Before
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during
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After

(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/548/818/20070620/dyn010_original_516_391_jpeg_2548818_c720277e2805aed3f22d7180a96f0b2a.jpg)

thanks j-f good job hope mine wiil be the same as yours

There is some defects, the hardest was the paint job  :-X

Most old wheels are not "perfect" anymore. I think that only adds to the vintage feel.  Don't polish them to death my friend  ;)

Thats pretty much what my Cal Parts used to look like - I just went through ALL the grades of paper with LOTS of water I went right up to 2000 paper :o :o :o  I also used a small block of wood to wrap the paper round, this gives you more contact area between the paper and the material/ali - After going right up to 2000 paper I went over the whole wheel with "AUTOSOL" which is a polishing/cutting compound that works really really well on aluminuim - it took me 15 HOURS PER WHEEL but it is more than worth the effort as they still hold that DEEP shine even after not being polished for a few weeks  :)

Hi Fabian, any update's?   :)

no work on the wheels for this time
to cold for work outside  ::)
thanks for your interest sander

here's an update ;D
i bought an 5th empi 5 for my spare wheels and this one was like that in the first picture and today and i worked on the wheels sometimes and here's the result after some work  ::)
on second pictures ; on the left is my job and the one on the right was polished by a company specialized in polishing, but those were polished into 99, but were maintained with belgom alu
3 : pict is the spare wheel now
4 : is the o,ne polishd by company

here's some new polish work on the torquer
first pict is before working today  ::)
second is today ,but need a better job ,it's still some black hole in the lip  ???

I did not have courage to thus finish my rims   ::) ::) ::)...................I carried them to a pal who passed them to a friend to him and here the result  :o :o

Looking good Fabs! :)

Slinger sent his Crestlines to Eric Vaughn in California to have the imperfections machined out... they came out pretty :)

I'm sure we could have gotten you the hookup in Stanton  ;D

euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh ..........................................no thx rick  ;D ;D ;D

too bad Sheep didn't go to Bug In

Hey, don't talk shit about Stanton Rick  ;D

Interesting Newstand outside the '6' in Stanton, you can get anything within 20 minutes........................................Robbed, killed ;D

LOL... I see you survived Stanton!!

Looking good! Do you have any other pictures of them polished?

i pick up my wheels tomorrow , and will take picture tomorrow too and post here  ok  ;)

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