Bent Spoke Work Equip Refurb

Just finished up a set of bent spoke Equips for MayoS14 on here aka Mike.

So this is what they looked like to start with, the centres are plastic dipped and the lip were ruined in chips and curb rash :
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Split them down :
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Labelled to keep track :
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As you can see there was alot of corrison at the rear :
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Before and after from the rear :
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Had the centres sand blasted :
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Machine sanded them all down :
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Let the hand sanding begin :
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Finally it came to polishing :
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Masked up for painting :
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Last but not least, done, no more polishing for the rest of the year :
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Unreal work dude!!! What are u using to polish ?

Savage work,id say its very time consuming!

Came up seriously well after all the work.

bethelordjaysus they look new! at first i was expecting to see a pair of equips with a bent spoke you came accross. hah

Great work man, you painted the part near the nuts? or just the rear of them and polished all the front.

Holy shit u have fair patience lad they came out mint

Thanks folks, took an absolute age, there was just so much to do with them, many evenings after work spent here. I used 4 different types of compounds, a cutting compound, cut/ stage 1 polish, mirror polish and then a paste compound to finish / remove any left over compound. Wont be doing anymore polishing for a while, have to do a set of sideskirts for a girl in cork and then a bonnet for a boy in Limerick and it'll be time to tip away on the RX8 getting all the many panels sorted before primer/paint.

id say youl be glad ta see the back of these fella !! :) lads i cant thank kruizer enough for all the work he done on these .. as ya can see they were in a bad enough state when he got hold of them ... his work is top class as ya can see an absolute gent ta deal with .. !! cant recommend him enough fellas .. top bloke .. ! looking forward ta collecting these .. :) now just ta get the car ready for them !!!

I guess I know who to contact for my wheel related issues. Great work, huge improvement.