I’m going to finally have a go at refurbing a wheel. Now I have the compressor up and chooching it’s time to run it through its paces before paint.
I have a needle gun for the big lumps of snot and my repurposed blast cabinet ready for the off. The only down side will be removing another tyre. It took much bothered to get the first one free from my spare and I’m not looking forward to wrestling another one into submission. Even driving over the rim several times didn’t release the sod. Eventually with the aid of an angle grinder it took three of us and four levers to free the bead. Ruddy rangemasters 😡
 
Little update.
I’m now on my third generator of the project. After much cogitating I decided the sine wave off the current unit was too dirty. It explained the fact that although having the power it wouldn’t run the big induction motor on my uge compressor. This was confirmed on the instillation of mahoosive LED lighting for the work area that flashed when hooked up.

I went for the biggest inverter generator available this side of the pond that would run on LPG. I was made up when it ran everything faultlessly, quietly and had enough umph to power a small airport. That was until it’s second startup and after a couple of hours it conked. Just got it back from repair and it’s chugging along ok for now.
Obviously it’s yet another set back and delay on the work in progress but I’m getting quite used to continuously being dumped on.
This six days off work is now goosed so with a quiet prayer to Swarf the god of series and the small sacrifice of an Eccles cake I’m hoping the weather on my next rest days will allow for copious amounts of primer spurting forth from my newly pressurised nozzle.

If my new, very expensive and so far infuriating power unit holds out.
 
Squirtin wheels. Very annoyed my generation never had rims. Just wheels.

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Two days of caravan graft and nothing to show for it. Been catching up with where I left off. Calked the gaps between sill and body and a bit more rubbing down. I’m now running out of excuses not to start priming, with two days before work beckons it looks like the next photo will have daubs of white all over it.
 
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