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Painting Wheels, Not The Tire?

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Painting Rooky

03-28-2002 20:52:03

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Im going to sand blast the front and rear wheels on my tractor. How can I prime and paint with out getting it all over the tires. I dont want to have to pop them off the rim, to big to do. Any ideas???

Thanks,PR

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willyz

04-07-2002 05:43:23

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I have some aluminum flashing that I roll to match the diameter of the rim, tie with thin wire, and set over the rim at the bead. Then I just spray inside the roll on the rim.

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Duner Wi

04-04-2002 17:37:48

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I take a piece of card board and press it against the rim, Then I cut it on the line where the rim left its mark on the card board. Jack the tractor up and if you don't go crazy with the paint it works fine. Is not as good as a good masking job but it sure is faster.

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Dan Sullivan

03-31-2002 21:08:20

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I ama currently painting my F-12. I took some heavy kraft paper. I got it at the local lumber yard. If you go in there and ask for them to save you one of the air bags that they get out of a rail car load of material and you cut the bag up then you have all of the kraft paper you need for a lot of paint jobs. I laid the kraft paper against the tire and stapled it to the tire with 5/16" staples. After that I took a razor knife and trimmed around the wheel. I haven't got the paper off yet, but it looks like it is working well.

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IHman

03-30-2002 17:05:39

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I just painted my IH "M" rims yesterday while on the tractor.
I jacked up one wheel at a time, washed the tire and rim with detergent,blew it dry, wiped the tire down about 6" from the rim with lacquer thinner so masking tape will stick to the tire. I wiped the rim down with thinner to remove anything tat might cause the paint to lift.I scuffed the rims with #100 grit paper sanding out scrapes and rust areas. Then blew the rim off with air, wiped it down with a rag & thinner again.
Now for the tedious part...use 2 1/2" wide masking tape and start masking approx. 1/4" from the rim edge, due to the large diameter the tape will apply easy as you turn the wheel, find you a reference line at the top of the tape on the tire and use that as a gauge for your distance.run your fingers along the top edge as you tape and press downward to rim, it will crease and follow around the rim as you continue to met where you started. So now you have the 2 1/2" tape around the whole wheel approx. 1/4 to 1/2 from rim edge.Now take 3/4" wide masking tape and mask off applying it carefully and neatly to the rim edge letting the tape run just a hair below the rimtop and press it down with pencil or ballpoint pen. The 3/4" tape will stretch and mold as you pull it out about 24" ahead of you turning the wheel slow as you apply the tape.
The more careful you are masking the better to finish product will turn out.."TAKE YOUR TIME"..I sprayed mine with a spray can in lieu of mixing paint and creating major overspray by using my air compressor gun. I have 15.5 X 38 tires on this IH "M" and the silver rims turned out GREAT....maskng is no problem if you clean the tires with thinner so the tape will stick and use wide tape on the first pass, then cut it in neatly with 1/2" or 3/4" tape right into the tire /rim groove....IT WORKS..make sure your paint is dry to touch before removing tape and pull the tape off AWAY from the rim carefully.

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Mr.allis

03-31-2002 14:39:53

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Re: Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to IHman, 03-30-2002 17:05:39

I have heard that if you put hand cleaner on the tires before you paint. After the paint is dry wash off the hand cleaner, and you should have no paint on your tires.
Hope this helps

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Kevin

03-29-2002 17:25:07

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

Why don't you use liquid mask! Paint the tire with it about 4 or 5 inches away from the rim.Paint your rim power wash off.Evercoat makes it.Works great! Your paint suppler should handel it.Post back if you can't find it.All my ph.# are out in the shop and i'll look it up tomorrow.Wilham Restorations.

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Red Raider

03-29-2002 10:48:32

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

Used the tape and paper method which works okay, but I'm going to try liquid detergent as a coating to protect the tire as someone posted. Should dry well then wash right off.

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Cliff Neubauer

03-29-2002 07:22:31

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I've never had very good luck taping around rims, the tape never seems to stick to the tires. If you narrow up the spray pattern on your gun and turn the fluid conrol knob in you can almost completely eliminate overspray on the tires, at least with my HVLP gun I can and then wipe the tire off with a rag soaked in thinner as soon as you get done painting.

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RobertTX

03-29-2002 05:34:15

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

Masking tape and paper. A little tedious, but the effort pays off in a nice job.

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LJS

03-29-2002 01:11:53

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Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to Painting Rooky, 03-28-2002 20:52:03

I have tried all the tricks recomended the one I like the best is to buy some flashing tin. Cut it up into pieces 8" long/or buy some in short lengths. Then slide it between the tire and rim. You may need to deflate the tires and then after the flashing is in place blow them back up to hold it tight. That worked better for me than the other options of Masking it off or grease it down and the last of just painting it and cleaning it up with thinner after. The flashing idea worked the best of all. But you have to have it cut up in small sections other wise it does not work well.

LJS

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KEG

04-03-2002 15:41:58

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Re: Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to LJS, 03-29-2002 01:11:53

Thanks for the picture of a beautiful tractor. Looks like a great job!!!

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Lucas

03-30-2002 08:38:09

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Re: Re: Painting Wheels, Not The Tire? in reply to LJS, 03-29-2002 01:11:53

Masking tape, and a paint brush!

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