Painting Wheels With Smoothrite

[philfingers 5]

Well I never did get a sand blaster, instead used a Da to get the old paint off.

last night gave them a coat of etch primer followed by two coats of celly primer filler. look pretty good so far so don't want to screw up. .. . .

 

BIG QUESTION!

Will I be able to spray them with smoothrite paint from a tin thinning it down with celly thinners. I have thinned smoothrite before with cleey and it's worked ok, but never put in through a gun.

Anyone any experience of this?

Or any other suggestions?

[Adnic69 0]

STOP......

off to get a web link for you for proppppper wheel paint for guns.....

Back in a min

[Adnic69 0]

http://www.wheelpaints.co.uk/

 

 

These guys are very good and supply most the paint to manufacturers for wheels. They have a huge range of finishes and colours. Their paint is very tough and will last.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Adam

[philfingers 5]

thanks for that will have a quick look,

 

phil

[philfingers 5]

 

 

 

Came out ok with the smoothrite. used some etch primer, primer filler and then thinned a 250ml pot of smoothrite down with celly thinners to make twice the amount and painted all four wheels with it. Looks ok for about £10 in total! Gold shade is a bit odd but not too bad.

[boombang 2]

that finish with smoothrite is a lot better than when I accidently sprayed up a wheel in hammerite!

[Mably 1]

Did you take the tires of the rims or just mask them?

[harryskid 193]

Did you take the tires of the rims or just mask them?

 

I have done quite a lot of wheels what with having a rally car that needs a lot of diffrent tyres. I have masked up tyres and done wheels with out tyres but the best method is with out the tyres. I only masked up the tyres when i need the wheels in a hurry !