| Author | Message | ||
     Avalaugh |
Dropped my wheels and sprocket off to the powder coaters yesterday, having them done similar to the BMW M series shadow chrome effect. Cant bloody wait  | ||
| Littlebutquick |
all that extra weight lol.pics when done please  | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
powder coat? or chrome? if pwder coat meh not that much weight if chrome yikes that's gonna be noticeable | ||
| Avalaugh |
powder coat, not that i'm too bothered about extra weight, the bike is plenty fast enough. | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
if powder coat then there should be no real difference in weight. maybe a few grams more depending on the coaters experience and the required thickness for the desired effect/color etc. i haven't seen the M series in person so i dunno. | ||
| Anonymous |
Be careful with bake temp and time. Wheels are heat treated aluminum, and can be annealed if painter isn't wise. | ||
| Father_of_an_era |
So anonymous, would the concern be that by overheating the aluminum rim, the properties of the alloy would actually change causing the rim to harden and become fragile? | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
or soft to soft esp at the mounting points | ||
| Nillaice |
annealed=softened "Annealing is used to induce ductility, soften material, relieve internal stresses, refine the structure by making it homogeneous, and improve cold working properties." | ||
| 1324 |
Anony, Unlikely you can answer this, but I'll ask anyway. What is the wheel alloy? Or, if you don't want to say, can you at least give us some idea of what temperatures we should not exceed, bake times, etc.? I've had this same thought after doing my last set of wheels. It is my understanding the OE wheels used the bake process to cure the factory powdercoat AND provide heat treatment. Is this accurate? | ||
| Avalaugh |
Picked up the wheels today, slight change of colour as the coaters i was originally using started messing about and asking me where to buy the colour i wanted from ??? So have gone with a gunmetal grey, with hint of blue in the top coat, hard to see in the pics but they look amazing, all done for £100 The picture of the sprocket on my leg gives the best indication of colour/shade, those jeans are a dark denim.           |
