Saturday, 5 April 2025

Autumn Showers

The annual autumn showers have arrived.   Only a month late, but the farmers in the wheatbelt will be relieved! 

Rims

I decided to do something about the steel rims used when going on outback trips.   I have nine.  Five for the 4WD and four on the trailer.   The rims were purchased second hand and are rather battered.

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inner

All the rust and old paint was removed using a wire brush which took the rims back to bare metal.

They then received three coats of primer followed by three topcoats of gloss charcoal grey

undercoat

Silver primer

I started the process by masking between the rim and tyre using duct tape.   That seemed a waste of tape.  Subsequently I discovered a different method using colour sample cards from the paint shop.

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My first completed rim.

topcoat

The tyre now needs blacking

Only eight more to completed.

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