Caswell rocks

[planedick]

Some time ago I purchased a polishing kit from Caswell and I needed to clean up a front wheel from the parts bike I bought so I could put it on Pathfinder because it's a tubless rim. Man it was horrible, never been cleaned I don't think and the aluminum was really bad. I wish I had taken pics before I started but alas.... The aluminum polishing things from Caswell worked awsome. Now the aluminum autside of the rim looks chrome plated. I made a polishing setup with a flexshaft and a 1/3 HP motor and it worked fine. I will have to remove the discs and clean everything and paint the black because it looks really bad now next to the polished aluminum.

[mro]

The aluminum polishing things from Caswell worked awsome

TTIWWOP....


mro

[81xsproject]

TTIWWOP

Translation= This Thread Is Worthless WithOut Pictures

[planedick]

Worthless shine

I realize men are visually stimulated, but you will just have to learn to use your imagination. It is such a PITA to post pics here. Get the camera out, take the pics, load them in the desktop which I have to wait for it to load windows etc, open Corel Draw and resize so the thread isn't a mile wide, load them into Photodump, then copy and past the image tag here. All for trying to show some shine that probably won't show up very well in a small pic here anyway...... I would really rather polish or ride....

[malber]

Use Flickr. It does the resizing for you.

[planedick]

OK, I give up

Spent some time this AM figuring out how to make the camera flash, and here it is...

[81xsproject]

While ya got it off, get yourself some rounded top, stainless bolts for the rotors. I did it when I changed tires and it look REALLY good.
Another way to save a step in the pic process is to lower the pic quality/size on the camera itself. Speaking only for myself, most of the pics I take are intended for email/forum/ebay use. So, the giant print quality photos are just a waist of time and camera memory.

PS nice rims

[planedick]

As I said...

I wish I had taken before pics. It was necessary to start with 120 grit emery cloth to take away the corrosion and flat sand the spokes as well. The sanding left a rather rough finish, but the Caswell things really changed that. The black surfaces are really in bad shape yet, plus in the center covered with a greasy residue so I'm going to disassemble the wheel and paint everything including rotors. Man, lots of work just to get a tubless rim on the front....

[81xsproject]

NO DOUBT! It took me most of a whole day to mount and balance a set.

[planedick]

Mount & balance?

I take my tire business to Cycle Gear, mount and balance is $20, lots better than spending the whole day dirty and sweaty.

[mro]

Very cool!
Looks like you have a very XSive dremal tool too


mro

[81xsproject]

Yeah, I can't wait to buy my wife one of those for her future career in jewelry

[planedick]

Finished

Here's the finished wheel...

[kawa bob]

WOW, that is a super job on that wheel, pathfinder is in good hands