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Thunderbum

Hey. I just recently set up my home powdercoating rig. I was wondering if anyone knows how hard it is to unlace and re-lace the wheels on a TBS. My rims are nasty looking from the weather these last nine and a half years, and I'm thinking of beadblasting them and putting on a nice powdercoat. Lacing seems reasonably straightforward, but I've never tried it and thought some advice would be handy before I make the decision to do it.

MickMaguire

Dont try it.

Lacing is straightforward, truing it afterwards is not. Find a wheel shop who can do this for you before you even touch the disassembly.

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Mick...

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jimmyj900

Yeah! What he said...

Actually I'd highly recommend you try it once for yourself, but only if you've got somebody handy to fix it for you when your done. :-D

Jim

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glgavin

Please step away from the powder coating machine.....

DUDE! Those alloys are never to be seen again AKRONT rims - polish um back and ride um with pride!
:knkknk:

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Gdsila

The KTM 520 Duke has the exact same rims

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Woody1911a1

i've laced hundreds of bicycle wheels and a few motorcycle ones too and it's kind of an art .

you'll need to build yourself a truing stand (a jig/fixture that will hold the wheel by the axle and allow it to spin and have a way to measure the deflection of the rim side to side and up and down ).

build it before you unlace your wheel and check for offset . (is the wheel rim offset to either side ) . one set of motorcycle wheels i did years ago used dif length spokes on the right side than the left .

looking at my adventurer front it has a cross 3 pattern and uses two different spokes . (the ones that are more towards the inside have a greater offset at the hub end)

on the rear it looks like 2 completely different lengths and it's a cross 2 pattern .

you'll also need to understand the fine art of truing as in adjusting the spokes in unison to get the rim to spin in perfect relationship to the hub and also at the proper tension .

***** now i want akront rims on mine !!!! in my youth seeing that name on a spec sheet meant quality . they always had a cool lil label on them too .

no way i'd powder coat them .

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Thunderbum

Well, it's like this. I know that they're Akront rims, and that's nice. But now I've got icky crud (pitting?) on (in?) the rims that won't come off no matter what I use. I can lessen it with a polishing buff similar to scotchbrite on a dremel, but even then it just makes the spots smaller. No polish I've used seems to budge it. The dremel pads aren't too cheap, and they last a few minutes, maybe a half-inch of rim each. If I find a lacing shop, I'll take the wheels down and try again (maybe beadblasting folowed by polish) before I seriously consider powdercoat. Actually, y'all have convinced me. No coat for the rims. I'll just coat my plain steel chevvy pickup rims and polish the bike rims like hell.

Woody1911a1

cool , now that the rim things outa the way . it's really easy to powdercoat . a friend and i have share a cabinet shop and have an oven (just a household type one) that we cut a hole in the side and extended it for bigger items .

we buy our supplies from eastwood .

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