How To Fix Heavily Corroded Wheels - Silver Metallic Powder Tips

hey guys what's going on it is dan here with right now powder coating and in today's video we are going to restore some really really really bad ford wheels and to show you what i'm talking about let's take a look right now all right here is what we are working on i don't even know what year these are but they are old they are super corroded as you can see there's corrosion just building up everywhere all the paint is flaking off the beads are horrendous these have the band sensor clips these are super expensive so we're going to leave these alone we're going to put them on there they'll go through the whole process but every single one of these wheels looks just as bad as the neck so we're going to show you guys how we clean these up and restore them to look almost like new so the first step is to get your hired hand to put them in the acid because you just got off a cell's job and you're clean and don't want to do it so let's get them in the acid and we'll pick up after they are completely stripped yeah we're gonna need something so you don't get any monetary gain from your work here other than your paycheck all right guys so that is the setup we have for stripping parts and wheels mostly these are custom built tanks it holds four wheels in there we have a rinse tank that's treated with baking soda to keep the water in a neutral state usually around seven and then we have a rinse off tank where we can get any loose paint off we collect the paint let it dry throw it away our good friends at express chem sent us a barrel of rim strip here um to try which they're saying is just as good if not better than b17 which is what we've used so these wheels are the first wheels into that chemical we're gonna see how they work and we will get back to you guys with the results as we move along all right wheels are fresh out of the strip tank did you dip them they didn't okay they're supposed to be rinsed in there i think there's enough the uh yes that's why we put them in there and we rinse them yeah yeah so much work all right guys so here are the wheels all stripped all the clear coat is off of them you can still see all the corrosion which is that white stuff in there a little bit of staining from the uh um the stripper um and it did work really quick so we've been using b17 and clear coat's not hard to get off so we haven't really tested it yet but these wheels took about 10 minutes to get all the clear coat off and then we rinsed them off which you saw put them into the oven outgassed them and now we're going to go in here i just built this big blast room we're still trying to get it squared up and everything but we put our blast cabinet in here for now so we're going to take each wheel we're going to run them in get them sandblasted so that we can get them over there and get them coated [Music] [Music] [Music] all right guys so we got these out they have now cooled down um as you can see when i put the silver on they didn't look too bad but when you actually get the silver on it kind of highlights some of that corrosion it's hard to see on camera but you can see some of that texture where the corrosion actually ate into the aluminum we're going to clear coat these now they're totally cooled down we're gonna give them a nice clear coat and then do a full cure on them these are just partially cured you can kind of see the texture there uh when you put that clear coat it will help hide it just a little bit not too much but it will look better and you know what these look like to start with so they are doing a heck of a lot better just some quick tips on spraying silver out of a box unit it doesn't fluidize like a hopper would and so you got to be a little bit careful we like to spray on the reclaim mode our dosing errors at 30 our total errors at 2.5 the reason we do the recoat mode is because it drops down our micro amps to 10. so what that does is it allows us to lay that metallic down a little bit better without getting the striping or the clumping of color the metallic takes the charge really well so if you have that at 100 it's going to create the metal to want to group together so by knocking your micro amps down it helps a lot so that's a good tip for you guys when you do metallics out of a box unit try and get your micro amps down get that current as low as possible now we're going to actually switch over to the pcc mode we're going to be spraying at 100 kv and 4.5 on the micro amps so we'll get that going right now all right so those are now in the oven baking i just wanted to take another quick note to make sure you guys notice how i applied that top coat that clear um like i said we use the pcc mode which dropped down our micro amps which drops down the current that's going into that corona field which kind of calms down uh the charge so if you notice i went nice and slow and i kept a really good distance from the part i was about six to ten inches away at all times and what that does is it allows that powder to come out of the gun and kind of float towards the part because we lowered our current we're not soaking up too much energy therefore we didn't get any back ionization when it hit the part and getting away from that part helps because if you get that gun tip too close to the part all that energy is going right into that substrate and that substrate can only hold so much charge and since we've already put a base coat down it's already built up some charge it's been insulated and it's going to want to reject excessive charge so to to reiterate i guess to to prevent back ionization lower those uh uas your microamps and get away from the part we want to be about six to ten i'd say eight to ten would be ideal in that type of situation so those are in the oven we're gonna go ahead and let them do a full cure now and then we will pull them out and check out our final product all right guys these just rolled out of the oven as you can see we don't really deal with clear coating the um the barrel part we do clear coat the back because we want to protect it yes i powder coated the surface it was severely corroded and that happens because there's no paint on it now i've coated the back side of a lot of these wheels and i've never once had an issue so all the haters you can keep your comments to yourself or share them i don't care it doesn't hurt my feelings but these bad boys they came out pretty nice as you can see if you don't remember go back and look at the front thumbnail for this video because that's the before maybe i'll do a split i don't know haven't decided so anyways that is how we fix very corrosive wheels they come out really nice hopefully you guys got some tips about gun distance and settings when you're doing a two or a uh not a two tone but a a two stage uh coat so as always give us that big old thumbs up if you liked the video i've been getting a lot of good feedback from you guys on how you all hate my music which is fine it's not really the music i'm after it's not the editing i just kind of want to share my knowledge with you guys so hopefully you're always getting something out of it if you have any questions or ideas for future videos just let me know in the comment section below make sure to check out my other videos check out my amazon links that does help us out quite a bit when you guys go on there and purchase stuff we are going to probably start selling some of our powders too to you guys who don't want to buy big boxes so we buy a lot of tiger most of it's not here but we do buy a lot of tiger wet black satin matte it's some of the best stuff on the market obviously we've got all the prismatic stuff we probably won't deal with that but i just thought if you guys have any interest in buying five ten pounds instead of a box let me know and we can see if we can help you out so again sorry this is dragging on make sure to give us that thumbs up give us that subscribe hit hit that notification so you know what we're 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Channel: Right Now Powder Coating

Views: 157,883

Keywords: rim right, powder coating, powder coat, powdercoat, how to powder coat, prismatic powders, corrosion, fix corrosion, fix corroded wheels, corroded, restore wheels, restore corroded wheels, bad corrosion, fix pitting, prismaticpowders, tiger, tiger drylac, axalta, sherwin williams, american powder coating, apc

Id: oFLIGmNnsTU

Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 31 2020