B&Q. Wickes. Most DIY style places will sell it, people use it to strip paint from skirting boards and household sh*t like that.
and ffs, please use gloves, marigolds, anything, because that sh*t is nasty if it gets on your hands. I had just a little (and I mean just a tiny little smear) on my wrist that I didn't notice, until oooh, maybe 30 mins later, knackered, looked like I'd burnt it.
Ian, Don't bother with nitromors, you will be there for weeks trying to get it all off in betweent he spokes etc. I've been there with a set of tatty E30 BBS and it took ages to do one so i gave up and sold em. Either just rub down the wheels, fill any chips etc and paint masking the tyres off. Or go the whole hog and have the tyres removed and look up metal refinishers in the yellow pages (must be loads down your way) and get them to blast and paint them. "Specialist" alloy wheel refinishers just subcontract to normal refinishers and charge their profit on top. What I'd do is ditch those wheels and get a set of BBS RXII anni wheels on it sharpish!
ive been using nitromors on my speedlines. been taking fooking ages. its the metal work one (wheels are metal, so logical i suppose) but ive not been impressed
when I was decorating, a customer asked me to get all the paint off the sides of his bare wood stair treads that some one had glossed!!! had a go with nitromors on one step, 3 hours later I gave up and told him it wasn't going to happen!!!! ive never been that impressed with it tbh.... haven't tried soaking it in the stuff though. How close are you to finishing these bling wheels matt?
effing close son. they are going to look the nuts, but are taking a lot of effort, which i dont have much of when it comes to cosmetic stuffs
Been there tried that Ian, especially with X spokes, you will never get down to the metal everywhere on the rim with Nitromors. Get the tyres off then take them somewhere local to get blasted. Shouldn't be more than 5 - 15 per corner to get done, then prime, sand, prine, sand, few coats of whatever colour and lacquer. Even refurbing rims on the cheap will still cost you near 100 to do it right.
you sure you wanna keep cross spokes? ive had them on mine for about two years. they are basically un curbed but because they are such a pig to clean, you end up not cleaning them, so the paint and gone pretty damn scabby, which is sad cos the actual wheels are nice. they are very lightweight too ive got some new wheels in the shed getting prepped up. currently bare metal, gonna be sanded tonight (1200 then 1600 grit with the black and decker, with brasso. them im going to polish them with some machine mart polishing kit im aiming for "different"
did this on a set of RA's and it was a major ballache-as said, nitromors is good to a point but on wheels like this you need to break out the wire wool and fine papers to get all the paint off. can be done but i was pulling bits of wire wool out of my fingers for ages after If you just want to tidy them up a bit then i'd key them and paint over it.
I was considering nitromors for mine but spoke to wicked wheels and they acid dipped them for 5 a corner, now i just need to get off my **** and either paint or polish them! Can't really be bothered though as they won't fit over the brakes anyway so i'll just be selling them as soon as they're done!
old post but whats the best way to remove the old paint after using paint stripper the old paint is bubbling off nice
presure washer quickest and easiest, you have to nutrilize the paint stripper with water after i thinks anyway so this method does solves both. Do it out of the way of other cars just incase some flicks on some paintwork.
I bought some silver wheels with decent tyres for 25. Sold the scruffy black ones on ebay for...... .....142!!!
Pressure washer, wire wool, a sponge and some elbow grease. Once the nitromors has started reacting (20 mins after the second coat when following the instructions on the tin) get a tennis ball sized bit of wire wool and take the bulk of the paint off. Then turn your pressure washer onto it's most painful setting and attack the smaller fiddly bits. Finaly use something like a scouring sponge from the kitchen to wipe over it all and get the last little bits off. I found that some awkward corner type bits were hard to get at no matter what I used and ended up with a small, round, metal attachment on my Dremel. For BBS wheels, where there's thousands of small, awkward bits I'd get them dipped. Something simple like 5 spokes etc then you'll be laughing with NitroMors.
used nitromors on my rs centres and barrels. was not too bad and safer than blasting. better and easier to have them dipped though. came out alright
