John Deere tractor rim repair and refinish

hey guys restoration guy with you here again we are working on the rims for the 820 we're actually this is one pair of them we got another pair we're going to do that we ordered in their new and powder-coated but these are the the old ones and we're going to straighten them up and paint them for the client just some take some dents out see if we can't smooth some things up these rims are a really good shape all right from I'm at work our rims are way worse but as I do some things I'll show you how I make them better a little torching a little heat if need be we have the front wheels and the smaller ones to do that are down there too so well let's get to working on all right I'm going to show you how to get rid of that problem now this is a very minor but it's still going to be the same let me show you then I'm going to show you how to do with the torch I'm going to show you how to use the grinder so hopefully I can figure out a way to do this or you can watch me now this can be done with a lot a lot of deeper dent but this is a small one so I'm going to show you how to do that how to fix it all right first of all you're gonna need heat it's kind of noisy so hope y'all can hear me [Applause] and take this torch you're gonna heat this up right in here is that bin this can be done cold but this will be a lot easier with heat you alright now we got the grinding wheel [Music] [Music] [Music] keep in mind some of these some of these angles that you do this and it will throw crap at you but what you got to do well there you have it it's important when you do this to do not expediently cool anything off on this steel like this because it could cause warping or brittle if you let things cool down naturally then you shouldn't have those issues so don't rapidly cool any of this stuff down when you're trying to shape or fix things like this now I'm going to show you this again on a another wheel alright guys here's another dent and one of these steel rims and keep in mind these techniques that I'm showing you you can do this on pretty much all steel rims now they might be thinner so they want to take as much heat but if you see what I'm doing and you watch what I'm doing with the torch it should be pretty easy for you to copy this so this is a much smaller rim so we're gonna go down here and we're gonna take that out and this same methods if I got a chance if I had one that was bent worse you could do the same thing it takes a lot more fight but you got to be consistent with your heat as you do this your hammers got to be in your hand with the heat you can't heat it and then go back you kind of got to do this kind of simultaneously and if you recommend using a torch versus using a rosebud or something you can control your heat better make sure you get your curve there you go guys that's how you straighten out dents and steal tractor rims now keep in mind that these tractor rims on tractors tractors don't go very fast you know maybe 20 miles an hour tops on these old tractors but on a steel rim that's a way to straighten it and it does very well so you'll need a body hammer and a torch and a good eye and remember you're gonna need some coordination so that's how you do that or how I do that anyways and yeah I tell you straighten these tractor rims so that being said let's look on the other side and see if there's anything that needs to be done there we have an Audi right there and be quite frankly some of this you can be done [Music] sometimes metal is thinner in something [Music] like me personally I would rather just riding this down a little bit and not heat this up because we already have some decay here show it to you on the camera inside of here we already have some rusting and some pitting already happening on here that I'm not particularly fond of let me see if I can't down here to the light we already have some some decay and rust in here that you know we don't want to I'd rather just try to do that by hand and with the heat you don't have to I mean you can use the heat but that's just my preference so I think I'm just gonna grind that high off right there a little high that is uh right over there I'm just gonna take a little grinder and tap it and it'll be fine so that's kind of how you straighten these rims I don't have any really bad ones to show you I mean I've straightened some horrible rims but that's the premise if you have some steel rims and just get your torch out and heat it and get a body hammer and keep in mind on body hammers they have this caved top and you would be surprised kind of like a dome top and you'd be surprised how that helps you do metal work and many other things so it just set up body hammers they're good for a lot of things okay I'm gonna finish these rims guys that's how you take out little dings and dents and little rims it's not a short video not tough I'll tell you go about that I'm gonna finish these up and then I'm gonna scuffle them and get them ready for paint now we're going to actually sand the inside of these rims now they've already been sandblasted mind you okay that's already been done some of this stuff we might take the grinder to to make it a little bit better for the primer but we're actually going to do now is we're gonna sand the metal now why are we gonna sand them well because we want to put primer on these wheels and driver if we sand that will make them we're gonna take our favorite grits to 20d a paper by hand fold it in half like so we're gonna can Sandy's yeah we're gonna sand this now and some 223 and reason for doing this is to knock down the highs that were created by the sandblaster when we had them sandblasted now this will make the sealer or primer which we're gonna do and we're blocks and the primer and then paint it are not blocks and this hand sand to make the paint lay flatter it looks smoother but in any steel that you sandblast not cast-iron so you want it rough but in any steel that you say unless it's a good idea to knock down these little clumpy highs so did your sealer or primer will lay flatter to do this rim and then I'll show you step two now I have a coating that we put on these everything sandblast just about it's not a sealer it's a rust inhibitor and put it on almost everything the San Blas so I have to use a scotch brite after that for this go over with a scotch brite knock off any loose dust make sure the pores are open up good except the sealer primer primer blow that off after you're all done scuffing and sanding scuffing and then you're ready to put your primer or sealer and paint it actually have these we're going to primer because we want to look really well then we'll block sand them again which you'll see okay no this is where we're gonna be priming our steel rims with this stuff works really really well it fills well it's and Zizi has its own guide coat when you sand it's very nice I love it so let's go paint some rims you've been buying it's very hot actually allowing me to do this rather quickly you you alright guys I wanted to do this one up close so you can see [Music] if you're wondering why we haven't really coated the inside with any primer because I was waiting to see how much was left a lot of these materials are pretty expensive so I don't need a lot on the inside because the tube I just went ahead and did these but I don't need a lot of primer on the inside of this is not probably going to put sealer over them anyway then paint them just because I can but I don't want to waste much of this so I have a little bit left so I'm gonna go ahead and put it in here so I don't waste it but I wanted most of this high build primer to be on the work that I'm going to sand so we have a little bit left so we come in here when we put it on here and have it in waste anything let's say guys used it all up well here we are all primered up they look nice they'll be wonderful thus and they'll be pretty super shiny I think we got all of our imperfections filled that we'd be looking for should come right out in a sanding now I'm going to show you how to sand by hand this is I have some 3m 320 grit file paper excuse me guys you're doing this one-handed here your piece off basically fold it in half better than that and what do you do you just sand this with flat fingers until orange peel is gone see we have orange peel unsanded somewhat sanded to sand it and once you achieve this you stop and it's sanded now you may ask is there a faster way yes there is and I would like to mention that if you're painting with a single-stage urethane or acrylic enamel normally with a sealer and your paint will cover 320 grit scratches so there's no wrong thing wrong with doing that if you're using a base coat clear coat no not going to happen you're gonna have to take it down to at least 400 but if you have access you can move a lot of this a little bit faster with the 320 grit on your da and and as long as you keep moving this da as you're doing this it will not garage in the city it won't it won't get and there you go go back by hand with a couple of passes would you significally have done using your da wherever you can saved yourself a whole lot of a whole lot of that is that that makes the fingers sore eventually so use your da when you can and be never gonna be any a problem doing something round like this as long as you keep moving don't ever just sit there and hold it in one spot it look out just show up in your paint job you gotta keep things moving when you're using a DA so and this will work out just fine go over it with it by hand take your red scotch-brite which is about the equivalent of 320 grit scratches so you get in your edges and around things that maybe you might have missed so you get a good adhesion and there you go that's how you sand a lot of things to get ready to paint so I'm not gonna keep the camera on while I do all this you got the basic idea when I get done I'll turn it back on when they're in the paint booth and ready to be painted let me add something to that something small like these wheels are these little wheels you're probably not going to be able to use your da to help you with anything like this this is a you know it's just isn't really going to help you so I just wanted to add that in there things are smaller like this you're probably not going to find and used to use a DA very well you're gonna have to do that by hand so just want to add that in there well there we go guys in my paint room yes siree Bob I have a payment so okay let's get the pain okay guys this is looking through my window of my spray booth and so you can watch me paint without me getting paint on my camera you okay guys if you or what is it just put on there what I just put on there is a sealer - part of sealer it's kind of loud in here and why would I put the sealer on I'm crying and I'm sanding well these are braiding my bare metal spots that I had if there was bare metal on it was sealer over you can also use sealer and a lot of other way se9 imperfection sanding scratches and stuff in that fashion sound wise another way you do with sealer if you are trying to do you see her for that too Sandler is where I went to steal I wanted that covered with a nice uniform before I might my pain you you [Music] you [Music] okay guys that was the very first coat of paint tell you a few things about that now guys when you're working with very thin paints this particular yellow that I'm using it is John here yellow but like I told you in my other videos I make this myself this is the colors from John Deere but as far as the hardener is reducers are things I add to it that's me it's not them this is a something we've come up with and what I do and it really makes the paint do what I want to do which is look great and shine and whatnot anyway when you're doing it thins it out though and when you have thinner paint number one trick I want to tell you that you've got to do when you're dealing with thinner paint it's gonna take more coats if something that would normally take two coats this probably might might take four or five coats this method thinner paint spread your coats out you know don't try to do it in two or three coats try to do it in four or five coats because all you're gonna do is end up with runs then you're gonna have issues with getting into here and here and all those areas you can get paint in there too so and with these particular wheels it's very hard to get paint in there and sometimes you have to go back with a brush if you just if you're just really particular I want to make sure there's good coverage which I'm kind of that way so but anyway thin paint you need to spray more coats and then then spread them out don't try to glob them all on it once you'll this wind up and ruin and not get the desirable effect so and in all my videos they're going to be little tips and every one of my videos is something of how the way I do things in my day to day and the work that I do so in every video there'll be something you should to take away from it and apply to yourself all painters have their own techniques all painters have their own styles of doing things so with what I show you my painting I hope you can take some of my ideas and skills and apply them to yourself so then about 20 minutes so about 20 minutes before you recoat what you want to be able to do is this see I can drag my finger right along here and it stacked up to where I could put my next coat on now not all paint is this way this is a synthetic enamel I believe earning enamel style paint so are a lot of enamels or even actually some single-stage urethanes that's kind of a rule of thumb where you can drag your finger across it and it doesn't stop your finger you ready for your next coat you you [Music] okay guys that's the second coat as you can see it's getting there it's looking pretty darn nice you get a nice uniform pretty shiny still kind of transparent but man we're getting there we're gonna have to think there's two more times I think to get to desired thickness and so the yellow looks like the correct yellow but we're getting there and see how the sealer kind of helps out if there were any blemishes it's really hard to see in here the lighting from the booth is really really good and cameras like I think they're fighting each other so it's hard to get in a real real good picture cuz it and the camera it's actually covered more than what what it looks like in the camera so we're gonna let this sit for another 20 minutes actually now I know you guys are real curious you know you know they told you that we're kind of paint it is but how I mix it and stuff but I just can't tell you guys yet you gotta you big John Deere guys out there maybe later on I got enough videos out there you know I'll let y'all know my mixing ratios how I go about doing it but right now you're just gonna have to be satisfied with the techniques the gun that I'm using is an HVLP I've showed this in other videos this is a really great gun let me show it to you this HVLP by a key spray which I've used a fool out of it now there's a really great gun okay I'm shooting at about Oh 30 psi out of this gun to shoot this material now I'm not an HVLP guy normally I when I do base coat clear coat stuff like that I'm how would you say a low volume high pressure type of person rather than a high volume low pressure because that's what HVLP stands for HVLP high volume low pressure takes very little pressure to get you to atomization but for the tractor paint jobs and for people painting at home what's nice about using an HVLP which is one of these like that a cue spray or something what's nice about these guns is you don't have to have a big honking compressor you know this pushing a ton of air to make this work and you can get what I'm doing in there and this is one of the reasons I'm making the videos this way so that you can see guns and things that you can use with if all you have is a small compressor like from Home Depot or something to achieve this type of work that I'm doing so and I actually use the HVLP with a lot of single stage stuff because it doesn't take a lot of pressure and cast iron it works really well but the purpose of some of these video these videos are for you at home so that you can do this yourself I mean let's face it if a lot of you guys knew a little of this you could have a tractor fixed up yourself because I mean tell you it's it's quite pricy to have somebody do this for you and to you know give it all this level of attention in detail so you guys got to go back on the tripod for a while while I wait for this to tack up and watch me do the third coat I think I'm gonna take my hairbrush get inside of here today I've done it with a brush I'm waiting on tried times anyway to go in here and airbrush those in you they're brush and maybe my clients at the we go there to get in there make them nice you [Music] all right I'm gonna take the camera off for a minute because we're not gonna wait why it is long on this last coat we're pretty well here guys very few see throughs something I'd like to tell you into when you're doing this now is the time this is the last coat we're gonna do four coats this would be the time to address anything that you would be worried about it's a see-through or a holiday or something you missed we're very very close I'm ready I'm not gonna wait quite as long at this cuz I'm gonna put my coat hard fast and really thin and I've changed Maya my mixture up on my paint for this last coat because uh the heat here it's actually gotten a little warmer and I can I could do that so but as far as the spray goes we're gonna do one more coat I know it looks finished but it's not it needs one more coat on there and we'll be there you [Music] we are all done guys it's all finished looks just like us glass super shiny beautiful looks really really good let's damn near like powder coat I mean punch I think it looks better than powder coat all done totally finished now there you guys go beautiful tractor rims and these even turn these actually turned out better than I thought they would I thought I might have to paint these two again but turns out I didn't turns out they look really good on both sides quite pleased with them so yeah we're gonna let those real let those go mother those are great but you know all the prep work we were you know we sandblasted them we put an anti rust coating on them we put a really really high build primer on them and sanded them really well we took them down to 320 grit scratches and as you can see but it looks great I mean literally okay it looks really really nice so high-gloss smooth very little orange peel if any so there we go guys thank you for watching I hope that uh we hope that y'all learn something and you could take this and use this towards your project and painting and part or if you're doing and until the next video [Music]

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Length: 37min 44sec (2264 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 21 2020