Subject: RE: Info on Excel rims
Author: Fred Sahms
Date: Dec 16, 2003, 3:47 PM
Post ID: 1715519956
They must have been in horrible shape! My Eldo rims sat outside at the
coast for many years, and I started out with steel wool, soap and hot
water and then went to the buffing wheel. Got em both done in a day.
Do you have them disassembled? If you go new, would you part with the
Borannis?
Fred
Brian Murphy wrote:
Fred, When I restored my Eldo, I spent about 10 hours per rim to get them polished. I started with 150 grit paper, and worked up to about 600 grit paper (working by hand and with a detail sander) before going to the buffer. The T3 wheels I have now are in worse shape than my Eldo wheels were in. I have had parts polished by pro places before, and it ain't cheap. I would estimate that the cost of doing this would be considerably more than half the price of the Excel rims (one rim costs about $125, I think). Brian Fred Sahms wrote:
Brian Murphy '74 Eldorado '78 T-3 '76 R90S |
73 Eldo
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