sweet wheels!

[charliechaindrive]

Well, today my uncle gary came over. And one guy at his work apperently had a set of old bike rims he found in his attic, and I ended up with them!

I was so bored that right after I got them, I de-laced them. And I rebuilt and polished the hubs (shiny shiny!)

Anybody know how to date these?

Currently, I am sanding on the spokes with a piece of 1000 grit sand paper. Tomorrow I will spray some paint stripper on the rims, and wirewheel the daylights out of them and hopefully shoot a coat of primer on them.

Unfortunatly, the rear hub is missing the break arm, dust cap and both of the lock nuts so, I'll need to look for those parts with decent chrome left on them.

 

[lobo5150]

the rear hub is a model D new departure

 

[Walker]

Have you tried putting the spokes in a hand drill (mounted in a vise), spin the spoke pinched between the sandpaper. works pretty good.

I probably have those hub parts. shoot me a PM

 

[charliechaindrive]

Argh! I wish I wouldve checked here a while ago. I litteraly just got done, scrubbin every spoke with a piece of steel wool. Freakin' sucked! My hands are raw..

 

[militarymonark]

walker You are a genius why haven't i thought of that. AWESOME!! now im going to revive a few sets.

 

[kingfish254]

Have you tried putting the spokes in a hand drill (mounted in a vise), spin the spoke pinched between the sandpaper. works pretty good.

That needs to go in the HOW TO section
Brilliant!

 

[B607]

Argh! I wish I wouldve checked here a while ago. I litteraly just got done, scrubbin every spoke with a piece of steel wool. Freakin' sucked! My hands are raw..

If you scrub off the cad plating they will eventually rust. Give them a shot of clear satin before you remount them. Gary

 

[charliechaindrive]

Argh! I wish I wouldve checked here a while ago. I litteraly just got done, scrubbin every spoke with a piece of steel wool. Freakin' sucked! My hands are raw..

If you scrub off the cad plating they will eventually rust. Give them a shot of clear satin before you remount them. Gary

gary, I was planning on clearcoating them. Because I would kick myself if they rusted over again. I scrubbed them, all from either a tarnished battleship grey color, or just flat out rust, to a shiny reflective silver. My hands are still swollen from the steel wool. The spokes turned out to look almost new, spare from a couple kinks that I need to tap out on the lead block.

 

[charliechaindrive]

Wirewheeled the rims half to death with my trusty 9$ harbor freight angle grinder today