Been Rednecking...again....LOL

Bought a set of classic 70's 7jx13 Ford fitment wolfrace slots off ebay, that hadnt been polished since the 70's I dont think...

They needed a make over to make em look their best again...

Cue redneck engineering (aka dont try this at home!)...

Here are two of the offending wheels...

The one on the left donedidded fresh off the wheel polishing machine

, the one on the right as it was, all skanky, pitted and powdery.. :sick:

The wheel polishing "machine"....(warning Redneck device below!) :idea:

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Cool eh...
Closer look?

Closer still?

The finished results...

Look much better...spun up with 1500 then 2000 wet n dry, then hit them with my polishing mop with farcla g6 then g3 (didnt have any autosol to hand!)...

So there you have it...the redneck wheel polisher...

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, as its pretty damn dangerous really...possibly...probably....

Balancing was an issue to start, but easily sorted by aligning the "wheel jig" correctly...by eye of course...
Drive device struggled at low speed, so needed momentum to counter the resistance that the wetndry inflicted...which made things more scary...
Wheel was angled so that water to stop the abrasive clogging didnt pour directly onto the drive device...this was aided by the distorted workmate, which was reshaped when I set fire to it when welding on top of it a while back!

I repeat...dont try this at home...This is not safe, and I only did it this way as I didnt have a car with ford wheel fitment up the workshop that I could safely jack up and bolt the wheels onto, as a internal combustion powered wheel polisher!

Redneck engineering rocks!

How are you still alive? :lol:

Its all the design Ste...
...you always have to factor in a margin of safety...

Granted margins can be very small a times,
minuscule even,
sometimes almost non-existant to the untrained eye.

But in addition, I have found that deciding which way to run in advance,
just in case things dont perform to design specification and go t1ts-up, is always a good plan! :lol:

greg your bonkers mate

What's that quote...

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity." :!:

Normal Gregster Bodging but hell it works!!!!!!

very impressed as always :lol:

Its quite amazing how you come up with these ideas :lol:

Worked well though

how have you still got all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs :lol:

Yes he has but BRAIN IS MISSING!!!!!!!! :thumbup:

Thats just a modification of the method I told you about I did. Classic

It could have been worse, he could have used an angle grinder to spin it :lol:

I did look at mounting the wheels on a rather large 24" extractor fan I have ..,which has 3hp motor...but the only way to secure it would have been cable ties which would have been round the rather sharp blades...which could have ended badly I reckon... :lol:

You want to see the invention to wipe his :butt:

Last time I polished alloys they were spun up on the car on axle stands......pedal pushed by mate...5th gear...loads of revs....the oposite wheel jammed with whatever we could find :shock: