Poor Man’s Manta Ray

[Slow-Rider]

cool build so fare.

 

[Jude Ephesus]

Ok, so, I can’t leave well enough alone.

I hit these wheels with some copper metal cast paint I found in one of my project cabinets. (Just sprayed right over the rust!)

The paint job is sloppy at best with tons of runs. I ran hot water over the can to thin the paint prior to use, in an effort to counter-act the cold, outside, then sprayed them in what turned into snowstorm!!!!! Lol. Didn’t work out as planned!

So, rough paint on the wheels, but they look ok from a distance. It’s sort of ratty anyways, so the runs may add some street cred’

@twojs.bike and @Captain Awesome have directed me to a place where I can score some fresh rubber: Any input on gum wall vs black wall?

 

[twojs.bike]

I vote black

 

[Son of Kradus]

Hmmmm i'd wait till youve got the head set n bars , finish the basic assembly then a better understanding of the color matching will point you in the right direction for tyre color choice!

 

[Jude Ephesus]

I ordered the black: the gum wall said long lead time….

 

[Jude Ephesus]

A few notes here:

1: you can see the runs here

2: I was stunned at the metalcast paint covering, hiding or eliminating the rust.

All I did was wash and degrease the hoops. Although these wheels just had surface rust on them, it was still pretty significant. For anyone’s future reference, somehow the metalcast paint visually wiped out the rust.

Truth be told, the picture below of the original rust looked cool to me and I went to the metalcast paint to actually try to highlight/accent the rust in place