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SOB/RFH
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« on: October 30, 2006, 09:22:57 am »

Please be honest now  Wink So who has the patience to polish the spokes and rib on them magensium wheels year after year never looking for a non maintenece option.......I myself did put on a set of Fuchs alloys instead of Gasburners to make my fingertip heal....................... Shocked
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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2006, 12:10:17 pm »

Actually I really don't mine if I have to polish my wheels everytime I gonna use my car, BUT since the the repro gas burner came out I never polish my wheels again.
That's the only way to make the differents between the real one and the repro ...

Cheers, Dokke
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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2006, 12:58:04 pm »

hrrrm....sorry, but.........With original Gasburners you donīt have to freqent a gym to be able to change the wheels.....That's the real diffrence!!
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2006, 13:29:59 pm »

Here's the ticket for you guys with real "mags".

http://www.roadsters.com/gibbs/

I don't have any magnesium, but use it on everything else and it works great.
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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2006, 16:59:39 pm »

hrrrm....sorry, but.........With original Gasburners you donīt have to freqent a gym to be able to change the wheels.....That's the real diffrence!!

I disagree I ended up leaving the gym with my original burners due to the amount my bicepts developed with the polishing. O and with the excitment of being sexually aroused by them Shocked Grin
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SOB/RFH
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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2006, 18:14:35 pm »

Polishing does not take a lot of muscle power...........you just need to hang in Cool...........So i guess you have been carring repro burners in a warehouse if you want to build biceps!  Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2006, 19:16:49 pm »

Here's the ticket for you guys with real "mags".

http://www.roadsters.com/gibbs/

I don't have any magnesium, but use it on everything else and it works great.

hey dokke -if this really works -let's get some!
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« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2006, 19:57:11 pm »

One of our Club members -Dokke- stated a few months ago that he leaves the Gasburners flat silver. reason (except from saving time & fingertips): By looking at them you can divide the "fakes" from the "real ones"-the fakes canīt get flat by themselves Grin
A quite good reason to let the Gasburners appear in a used-look....
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« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2006, 21:19:44 pm »

By looking at them you can divide the "fakes" from the "real ones"-the fakes canīt get flat by themselves Grin
A quite good reason to let the Gasburners appear in a used-look....

Me too. Plus my car isn't that shiny, so the oxided look matches the overall apperance  Wink

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« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2006, 09:17:27 am »

I'm pretty sure all of us can spot a fake across the parking lot? All I have to to is look at the lug holes...  I polish all my wheels by machine.. where I can..
Have you been up and close to some of the new fuchs "copies"? They are so far of that I consider them a brand new wheel... check out the area around the centre caps  Shocked
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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2006, 17:39:35 pm »

I restored / re-did my Gas burners 3 times in the process of restoring my '58.  At one point I was so fed up with the magnesium going away, that I actually put some early 6's and 5.5's on it.  That was in the chassis stage though, and I regained my senses about the Gasburners and found out about Enviropalting (plastic - powdercoat), and did the wheels for the third and final time.  Between Gasburners and Cosmics (5 lug) - you can't go wrong! Grin
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2006, 00:14:25 am »

I polish my magnesium BRM's about every other month.
I like Happich Simichrome the best.
It doesn't take very long and I don't mind.
 Grin
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