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benno:
This is how I did it 👍🏼
This project started with some really ropey Araya 7x that I had kindly donated to me by a fellow stroud based Radster Jason ( burnerboy ) on here.
They were a bit beaten up but not beyond saving.
1 was gold and the other was silver so I got the caustic soda out and gave em a bit of a bath to remove the Anno.
With the Anno gone it was a case of out with the sander and working down the grades finishing up with wet sanding with 1000-2000 wet and dry.
I thought it was best to get the rims as good as possible before attacking them with the drill 😂
So I also gave em a good going over with autosol and then peek using my trusty polisher which is basically my orbital sander with circular microfibre cloth attached to it.
When they were at a reasonable standard it was time to start thinking about drilling alll the holes.
The problem was that all the spoke holes and the actual bobbles for the spoke holes are not all the same distance apart so trying to make a template was difficult.
After a few attempts on a practice set of scrap wheels I came up with a plan.
I stuck 1” masking tape across the rim between the bobbles ( in some of the pics you can telll the difference in the distance between em )
I then made a small plastic template with a small hole which was in the centre of the rim and roughly centre between the bobbles.
I then marked every hole with a biro and used a centre punch to give the drill a head start,
It was then a case of drilling every hole in stages starting with a 2mm bit then up to 4mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm and finishing with an 11mm hole using a stepper drill bit and being extra careful to stop before they got to 12mm 😂😂
This was actually quite good as it gave me a very slight counter sink and no burring
So that’s 420 holes in total 😱 but when I took the tape off it was deffo worth it.
I had previously bought some really nice Suzue hubs so I sent both the rims and hubs off to Rads resident wheel builder Danny Robbo and he did an excellent job as usuall
For the rim tape I bought some 15mm shiny blue ribbon from eBay and also some new standard rim tape the icing on the cake was the pro class valve hole decals from the main man Del and they were finished.
I’m chuffed to bits with em and they will be gracing my next build
The pics will tell the rest of the story
Cheers

benno:
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benno:
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chubby:
Not easier to buy some??

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