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Ron Baker wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:16 pm Mel, I was looking at your powercoated wheels. I am thinking of doing the same with my 79 RT snowflake wheels. Did do much prep work before sending them off to coated?

melville wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:09 pm I've been having too much fun riding this summer and have only been picking at the Elsa project for an hour or so every couple days. What I've been doing is de-burring the snowflakes. BMW left a lot of casting marks in the wheels and I've been smoothing them out. Things like this:



Become this with a bit of sanding:



And then there's the parting line on every spoke. I found it was easier to make tools than to use anything else I had on hand:



I have a few different shapes like that. A wooden paint stirrer is also great for getting into the acute corners. This is where it's going:



Just knocked down enough that there won't be a 'fin' poking out of the powdercoat. These should make it to the powdercoaters in the next couple weeks. Then to repack the hubs and get the slightly used tires mounted.