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Title: How to remove chrome
Post by: trickystar on December 16, 2012, 09:44 PM
Can anyone tell me how to remove chrome from alloy rims without taking them apart.
Thanks ;)
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on December 16, 2012, 09:48 PM
leave out in the rain for 15 years ?

don't know if you can ?

are they 90's and flaking ?
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: Dark Diggler on December 16, 2012, 09:57 PM
I can come round and piss on them if you like , the chrome will evacuate within minutes
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: trickystar on December 16, 2012, 10:55 PM
Yeah they are mid school hoffman
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: brummie on December 17, 2012, 09:50 AM
you cant mate
they need to go to a chromers for stripping
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: deeman on December 17, 2012, 11:06 AM
^^what Dave said,they will have to come apart and be stripped by chromers. :daumenhoch:
Is that your Sunbeam in the avatar?would be cool to see aome bigger pics! :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: Peter J on December 17, 2012, 11:21 AM
Again what Dave said  :daumenhoch:

But check with the chromers first as some won't touch aluminium  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: Dannywhac on December 17, 2012, 11:27 AM
If the rims are Hoffman Gack mid-school rims, they're identical to the Hoffman Generator 48's that they still made up to a couple of years ago (apart from the decals). Give BMX City or the like a ring, and you should be able to pick up a set of 48's for around £30 (waaay cheaper than a strip/re-chrome).
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: trickystar on December 19, 2012, 09:30 AM
Cheer fellas and no the sunbeam is not mine . I just have a standard lotus road car this is how i was thinking of doing mine but my mate keeps trying to talk me out of it because its original, but standard is boring !
Title: Re: How to remove chrome
Post by: deeman on December 19, 2012, 12:00 PM
Cheer fellas and no the sunbeam is not mine . I just have a standard lotus road car this is how i was thinking of doing mine but my mate keeps trying to talk me out of it because its original, but standard is boring !

If it is mint,leave as is!!any chance of a pic?? :daumenhoch:
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