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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: rwleigh on July 25, 2012, 02:33 PM

Title: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: rwleigh on July 25, 2012, 02:33 PM

Has anybody bought a set of these from eBay and managed to get them bleached or cleaned back to bright white?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-SCHOOL-BMX-20-GENUINE-1980s-80s-ACORN-FREEWHEEL-MAG-WHEELS-CREAM-NOS-/180935651152?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D857095873063606420%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-SCHOOL-BMX-20-GENUINE-1980s-80s-ACORN-FREEWHEEL-MAG-WHEELS-CREAM-NOS-/180935651152?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D857095873063606420%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26)

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: Sink on July 25, 2012, 03:09 PM

I had a pair that I bleached, they came up a bit brighter, but no where near white, they are naturally cream, so you'll never get them white  :daumenhoch:
That said they looked the part on my lads old school frame

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y87/NitroCowBoy/BIKE/Photo0603.jpg)

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: rwleigh on July 25, 2012, 04:47 PM

Cheers Sink, that's interesting.

Did they actully do both white and cream wheels bitd  then or were they all cream?

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: theRuler on July 25, 2012, 05:49 PM

Only the tuffs were whitey white.

The acorns and zytecs were a creamy colour (in comparison)

Bleach may help, but I'd go for dye and see what happens.

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: rwleigh on July 25, 2012, 06:26 PM

So out of curiosity if you dye them how deep does it get into the plastic, what happens with brake wear over time?

Say i dyed a set green would i end up having green wheels with a cream rim after some use?

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 25, 2012, 07:17 PM

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd252/BENDYCAT/SNC16272.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd252/BENDYCAT/SNC16268.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd252/BENDYCAT/SNC17501.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd252/BENDYCAT/SNC17490.jpg)

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: rwleigh on July 25, 2012, 07:50 PM

So BENDYCAT, are trying to tell me that you dyed cream acorn magnums black, blue, red and yellow?

Title: Re: Cream pinkish Acorn wheels.
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 25, 2012, 10:11 PM

 :angel: yup - I got the sets you see on the lawn - they were dirty and had turned cream - at this point i think that the material used to create them turns from a white to a cream over the years

I bleached some and then learned to dye them with dylon dye - polished the hubs on the black set

sold a load and only have a few sets left


as for how deep the colour of the dye goes ? it's less than a milimeter - as it only covers the mags and doesn't penatrate that deep - so brake rub will show after a white if the colour under it is different

how you dye them is a big part of it  ;)

cheers B  :coolsmiley: