banding steelies

i would like to get my steel wheels banded, does anybody no any sites with how tos on it, my mate shuld be up to it but just woundered if there is special ways and tools to use to get it perfect.........
any help would be greatly appreciated
regards

 

i have had a look at doing this with g60 steelies but no one has been really helpful
pm me if you get anywhere with it mate i am very intrested in this

 

ok mate. as far as i can see you just need to cut the outer lip of, possibly mark and scribe it so its perfect, maybe even set a angle grinder up so it cuts a perfect line???
the outer rim would be easy to get flat on a metal bench and a adj set square etc
not too sure about the welding unbalancing the rims????
would ed a balancer and a welder on the scene....

 

my mate can weld very well, i will ask him when i get back in the country .
but what about the extra metal needed for the girth?? how thick and how to get it perfectly round?
hmmm

 

check out this thread-might help

http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1163618604

 

you use a straight bit of metal and put it through a set of rollers which puts the bend in it to the perfect roundness of the rim

 

very good find so vduben you any good with cutting and welding lol

 

i was too ate with my reply ont he rollers
i kindaalready guess what was on most of that post, i wont be using a milling machine, but i can get on a lathe
you could make a jig piece of **** to get it spot on first time me thinks, deffinatly gonna gve it a go!!!!!
get my mate to final weld it up tho i havent welded properly in ages!!

 

i like you guessed most of it, but was no way going to claim i no how to do it

i dont trust my welding therefore i will drag a mate along to do it.
make a build thread of how you get along so i can steal your ideas and claim i showed you how

 

if you lathe the wheels in 2 and get the band straight it should be exactly as the wheel was in the first place no?

 

there is always the fact that with the heat of running a full weld with warp the metal ever so slightly, if its in a jig clamped down tightly it will be perfectly level both sides(no buckels)
and will also add piece of mind.......
if it goes all right on the tester wheel i will post how i have done it.
oh and they will never believe you stole the ideas from me because you smoke crack!!!!

 

i dont its the golf mans birthday code

 

i just seen that
edit master
gonna practice on a 14'' driver steel first

 

i will see what yours turn out like before i get a set of wheels cut up, no c0ck ups from me

 

dont believe me look here then

http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110879

 

i stabbed a trojan man because im cool like that

my mates well up for this so games on, might even do it tomoz!!

 

dont waste no time does you
well i am looking at doing it when i eventually get round to fitting a berg cup kit
are there any nice 16 inch steelies come to think of it, need it for brake clearance

 

dunno but i no discos have 16'' steels
could mackel the set ive got for you??
et of -20 any good for you

 

mackel?? my turn not to no what your talking about
and yeah -20 is fine actually what et do you think i will need to fill berg cup arches

 

Depends who finds out of course, but banded steels are illegal in the UK. Shouldn't pass an MOT if they are spotted.