Pics of Swastika wheels

[Ben's Z]

I am in the midst of polishing the lip on the turbo wheels I acquired with my turbo parts car and I am trying to figure out what to do with the swastika center section. I am thinking about painting the whole swastika gunmetal and leaving the outer lip polished; or delicately painting the the grooves that were gold before I glass beaded the wheel on Friday, semi gloss black or gunmetal or something. Polishing the swastika center is a bit of a pain because of the small grooves that are machined in to the wheel face. Any pictures of restored or modified swastika wheels would be great.

[RB26powered74zcar]

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[warrenHLS3083301]

DO NOT glass bead where you want to polish, or else you will be sanding forever to remove the texture. All aluminum wheels have a clearcoat of paint on them to protect from corrosion so your best bet would be chem paint stripper, or somthing like wallnut shell media, baking soda or dry ice blasting.

[Ben's Z]

I glass beaded the whole wheel, I had the roughness which was limited sanded and buffed out in under an hour. 320 grit wet, 400 grit wet, white wheel on the Makita buffer with brown rouge yellow wheel with green rouge, looks great.

 

DO NOT glass bead where you want to polish, or else you will be sanding forever to remove the texture. All aluminum wheels have a clearcoat of paint on them to protect from corrosion so your best bet would be chem paint stripper, or somthing like wallnut shell media, baking soda or dry ice blasting.