How do you remove laquer

[Stulc]

From wheels without doing to much damage, because I have some nasty looking "patches" where it's bubbled up.

 

[Stulc]

Thought someone might have known.

 

[andy_k]

wet and dry paper if it's just for localised repairs. If you want to get the whole wheel stripped back to bare alloy I'd get them dipped in paint stripper or sand blasted - make sure that

a, if you get them dipped they are thoroughly clean before you refinish them and that you use the correct primer

b, that whoever does the blasting knows what they are doing - I had a set of compomotive alloys refurbed using this method and the results were superb - a locl engineering firm sharged me a fiver a wheel to blast all the old laquer off them

HTH

Andy

 

[Stulc]

Thanks Andy.....I had thought of that but wasn't sure as I I thought how bad it scratch the alloy, and if it was badly scratched I thought it wouldn't polish very good.

The blasting way sounds good, I would like to polish the rim's though because apart from the bubbling of the laquer they are very good condition.