After much deliberation whether to change the wheels on my 90, i found a
tin of black hammerite in the shed.


In a moment of randomness i have painted the old steel modulars black.

They actually look really good, much better than i expected.

My only question is, is hammerite the best stuff to use? Im worried that
when they got hot, it will just flake off.

Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......



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Mark Solesbury <mark_solesbury@tiscaliIWONDERIFTHISWORKS.co.uk> uttered
summat worrerz funny about:
> After much deliberation whether to change the wheels on my 90, i
> found a tin of black hammerite in the shed.
>
>
> In a moment of randomness i have painted the old steel modulars black.
>
> They actually look really good, much better than i expected.
>
> My only question is, is hammerite the best stuff to use? Im worried
> that when they got hot, it will just flake off.
>
> Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......

Just don't get any around where the nuts sit, any king of paint here has
been known to help the nuts come loose.

Lee D

On 05/11/2006 15:44, Mark Solesbury wrote:

>
> Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......

http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/my_land_rovers/wheels


http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbu...fotki.com/marksolesbury/my_land_rovers/wheels
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On 05/11/2006 17:44, Mark Solesbury wrote:
> On 05/11/2006 15:44, Mark Solesbury wrote:
>
>>
>> Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......
>
> http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbury/my_land_rovers/wheels
>
>
> http://public.fotki.com/marksolesbu...fotki.com/marksolesbury/my_land_rovers/wheels
>

opps.... I think my laptop keyboard is having a fit.... Looks like CTRL
V got stuck!!

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Lee_D wrote:

|| Mark Solesbury <mark_solesbury@tiscaliIWONDERIFTHISWORKS.co.uk>
|| uttered summat worrerz funny about:
||| After much deliberation whether to change the wheels on my 90, i
||| found a tin of black hammerite in the shed.
|||
|||
||| In a moment of randomness i have painted the old steel modulars
||| black.
|||
||| They actually look really good, much better than i expected.
|||
||| My only question is, is hammerite the best stuff to use? Im worried
||| that when they got hot, it will just flake off.
|||
||| Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......
||
|| Just don't get any around where the nuts sit, any king of paint here
|| has been known to help the nuts come loose.
||
|| Lee D

Yup, paint the wheel by all means, but scrape off the paint under where the
nuts go. Movement of the wheel cracks the paint, paint falls out, wheel
nuts loose.

My experience of Hammerite is that it sticks forever where you don't want
it, and flakes off bigtime where you do. If you've done your prep, it
should stick as well as anything else, I suppose. I've never had much luck
with it. Nothing looks worse than a crudely Hammerited bumper with rust
starting at the edges! The spray cans seem to go on better than the stuff
in the tins. Don't forget to overcoat it while it's still soft, OR leave it
to cure for 6 weeks before another coat - next day is no good.

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On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:44:27 +0000, Mark Solesbury
<mark_solesbury@tiscaliIWONDERIFTHISWORKS.co.uk> wrote:

>After much deliberation whether to change the wheels on my 90, i found a
>tin of black hammerite in the shed.
>
>
>In a moment of randomness i have painted the old steel modulars black.
>
>They actually look really good, much better than i expected.
>
>My only question is, is hammerite the best stuff to use? Im worried that
>when they got hot, it will just flake off.

I hope that your wheels dont het hot enough to remove hammerite! it is
quite heat resistant. I've done engines with it. it can just about
cope with heat shields near exhausts too.

It will only flake off if you painted it right over perfect new paint
without any prep.
if it is over rusty metal or old/scratched paint it will chip but not
flake.

The wheels on both my 2A and the 101 are hammerited. I went over the
wheels with a wire wheel on the grinder before painting the, and it is
lasting fine.

"Lee_D" <newsgroupNOSPAM@NOSPAMlrproject.com> wrote in message
news:4r6gpbFpm008U1@individual.net...
> Mark Solesbury <mark_solesbury@tiscaliIWONDERIFTHISWORKS.co.uk> uttered
> summat worrerz funny about:
> > After much deliberation whether to change the wheels on my 90, i
> > found a tin of black hammerite in the shed.
> >
> >
> > In a moment of randomness i have painted the old steel modulars black.
> >
> > They actually look really good, much better than i expected.
> >
> > My only question is, is hammerite the best stuff to use? Im worried
> > that when they got hot, it will just flake off.
> >
> > Will get some pics when ive got my camera charged......
>
> Just don't get any around where the nuts sit, any king of paint here has
> been known to help the nuts come loose.
>
> Lee D
>
Didn't come loose on the threads that the Army used to paint red on the
studs, could never get them off easily after. There used to be a picture on
the wall at the HGV Testing Station showing a wagon with a wheel coming off
and a caption that said 'Under no circumstances should oil or grease be used
on wheel nuts', but there wasn't a telephone number you could ring when you
couldn't get them off on the hard shoulder with a puncture. ;-) Properly
torqued up it shouldn't make any difference, paint or oil contamination.
Without lubrication, friction works against the applied tightening torque so
you don't get them tight enough.

Martin