Awesome! Mine is like a year and a half old now. A couple of very small cracks opened up over the winter with it contracting/expanding with temp change. But that’s why I say in the video you should take more care than I did “V”ing the cracks. But even as is mine looks awesome until you get 3 feet away from it.
You can wrap the old plastic with carbon fiber veil cloth with resin to prevent future cracks or to build up a little material on brittle plastic. Alternative to PC7 or epoxy filler from JB weld, Press N Seal wrap larger cracks will allow liquid resin to flow into a crack without spillage with dental syringes. Then sand & paint as normal. More labor intensive in wrapping the wheel, but will greatly reduce the chances of cracks reappearing. This is the method a Canadian wheel restorer uses as well as balsam wood for filling. His prices are about the same a wheel recasting. This is the method I am going to use to repair mine. Another method is similar in patching with fillers and paints is to cut an aftermarket wheel up for the ring and weld to the old standoffs to eliminate 90% of the filling repairs.
I would for sure like to try that. Mine has helped up decently a year later but did develop a couple small cracks over the winter where it expanded and contracted with temperature cycling. Which is why I stressed that others should take more time v-notching their cracks than I did. It still looks very good considering the minimal effort I put it in it.
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Thanks mate, I’m gunna do the same with my ‘62 Grand Prix wheel, good inspiration.
Awesome! Mine is like a year and a half old now. A couple of very small cracks opened up over the winter with it contracting/expanding with temp change. But that’s why I say in the video you should take more care than I did “V”ing the cracks.
But even as is mine looks awesome until you get 3 feet away from it.
You can wrap the old plastic with carbon fiber veil cloth with resin to prevent future cracks or to build up a little material on brittle plastic. Alternative to PC7 or epoxy filler from JB weld, Press N Seal wrap larger cracks will allow liquid resin to flow into a crack without spillage with dental syringes. Then sand & paint as normal. More labor intensive in wrapping the wheel, but will greatly reduce the chances of cracks reappearing.
This is the method a Canadian wheel restorer uses as well as balsam wood for filling. His prices are about the same a wheel recasting. This is the method I am going to use to repair mine.
Another method is similar in patching with fillers and paints is to cut an aftermarket wheel up for the ring and weld to the old standoffs to eliminate 90% of the filling repairs.
I would for sure like to try that. Mine has helped up decently a year later but did develop a couple small cracks over the winter where it expanded and contracted with temperature cycling. Which is why I stressed that others should take more time v-notching their cracks than I did. It still looks very good considering the minimal effort I put it in it.
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Thank you!
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Good eye sir. That made it months before anyone noticed that.
Wow!