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Skyway wheel cleaning help??

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dp and chopper dude:
Bloody hell, they've come up well! Top work.
You can't beat a Tuff Burner. My first BMX in 1982  :smitten:

Picklez:
Agreed, they really did come out well.

So, who made the hub covers, love work like that, and where's the Sand Blaster located? He could get busy with old bike wheels all of a sudden  :LolLolLolLol:.

burnerboy:
I made the covers myself as I work in sheetmetal, just thought I better knock something up to protect it all, though I don't think the corn cob would have done too much damage to it all.

The blasters are local to me here in stroud, Gloucestershire.
I know them quite well and they just let me carry on and do it myself!

When I get the rest of the burners out of hibernation I do have a mk2 tuff with the same date wheels so I shall def be doing them, also gonna try a blue set too.

Midschoolfool:

--- Quote from: Picklez on April 04, 2021, 11:00 AM ---Agreed, they really did come out well.

So, who made the hub covers, love work like that, and where's the Sand Blaster located? He could get busy with old bike wheels all of a sudden  :LolLolLolLol:.

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It's the same for Z rims. I was given a pair of 80s yellow skyways back when I worked at the BMX shop in the late 90s. They were in a heap out the back "trash wheels" and had been in the sun for over a decade. I thought they were white, turns out not.

I gave up in the end and threw them away. I figured they were gone. Then my buddy sanded his (it took him about a week, nutter) and they came up looking like brand new. It seems the plastic oxidises in the sun, but only on the surface. So you literally just have to skim the surface off to get new looking wheels.

And yeah, those hub caps? amazing. Never seen that done before, that's very clever indeed.

burnerboy:
Just thought I'd give an update now that the build is pretty much done.
I'm really pleased with how the wheels look and is def the way to go if you need to freshen a set up.
The bike is a mix match of bits but was just a case of getting what nos parts I could during these times (price!!)
Another one in the vault!

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