Need Advice, Cleaning Alum. Wheels
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Need Advice, Cleaning Alum. Wheels
My Fellow Americans, I have a set of tires and wheels that I am trying to clean up to sell. The wheels are alum. with 33X12.50 15 tires on them.
The wheels have a lot of small black specks on them that I want to try to remove. I have used Etching Mag wheel cleaner as well as Bleach white. It has lightened the spec color some but is not cleaning like I had hoped.
I would like to hear what has worked well for other readers.
thanks
John
The wheels have a lot of small black specks on them that I want to try to remove. I have used Etching Mag wheel cleaner as well as Bleach white. It has lightened the spec color some but is not cleaning like I had hoped.
I would like to hear what has worked well for other readers.
thanks
John
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i use to detail semi trucks, i was the alluminum polishing man. Mag cloride or salts on the road with etch into the aluminum. To get pits and sctrached out you must sand. you can shine it. but to get a good shine you must use a buffer. I use a 6000 rpm dewalt grinder. YOu can try mothers aluminum polish from walmart, it is very agressive stuff but should do good. try a power ball to help to cut down work
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John is the finish polished or brushed. The black pits are from acid of some kind. could be from anywhere, acid rain, dog pee, battery leak, tree sap. If the finish is polished I would use mothers paste and elbow grease. For a brushed finish a small soft wire wheel on a drill motor works quick but you have to do the whole wheel.
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I created an album and added a photo of a wheel that I was cleaning. The photo doesn't show much detail of the specks.
The finish is brushed, and with a lot of rubbing with Bon-Ami and a sponge, most of the black specks are light gray now, but not all.
I want to clean them enough to sell quickly. I suspect I could spend $50.00 in time and materials and only add $5.00 to the selling price.
Thanks for the tips so far.
John
The finish is brushed, and with a lot of rubbing with Bon-Ami and a sponge, most of the black specks are light gray now, but not all.
I want to clean them enough to sell quickly. I suspect I could spend $50.00 in time and materials and only add $5.00 to the selling price.
Thanks for the tips so far.
John
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Let's keep the flame wars to a level somewhere around "non-existent". The question was about wheel polishing, not childish fighting. If you don't have any advice, then don't post a reply.
John, if they are anodized, you could strip them with Drano and then polish them with an aluminum polish. By the way, what were those wheels on?
John, if they are anodized, you could strip them with Drano and then polish them with an aluminum polish. By the way, what were those wheels on?