Restoring Hotshot Wheels?

[Old Falcon Lad]

Morning all

I have a super sabre and hotshot that have well used wheels - has anyone had any success in simply re-spraying them white to take away the yellowing? If so, what's the best paint to use that's hard enough to still allow you to fit tires?

Also, what putty should I use to fill the odd scrape and chip - I see Tamiya make a few. To sand afterwards do you simply use 1500 grade wet and dry? Please point me to a 'how to' if it helps!

Cheers as ever,

P

[sgt.barnes]

Hi

I have done a "how-to" but I have not had chance to upload it yet. Its showing me restoring a set of

Falcon wheels. I will try to upload it for you tonight.

Mark

[BeetleLover]

Maybe you saw my restoration guide? http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=105729

I use Tamiya Putty White item 87095, I have sprayed wheels before and will paint the ones in this tutorial. I use regular TS Spray but I would leave them a week before fitting the tires, it should be well cured to harden fully. I sprayed the wheels on my Willies Wheeler here: http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?c...764&id=3092 They came up fine over the yellowed plastic... Some people have had success with peroxide to "bleach" the yellowing out of the plastic, I believe the mold killer I used to strip the paint had a similar effect too

hope that helps

James

[WillyChang]

I have a super sabre and hotshot that have well used wheels - has anyone had any success in simply re-spraying them white to take away the yellowing? If so, what's the best paint to use that's hard enough to still allow you to fit tires?

Also, what putty should I use to fill the odd scrape and chip - I see Tamiya make a few. To sand afterwards do you simply use 1500 grade wet and dry? Please point me to a 'how to' if it helps!

yea we used to sand then respray used Hotshot wheels... TS White sticks on well,

if it falls off just soak the wheels in acetone and they're clean again

but today... imho buying a new set of Hotshot re-re wheels works out cheaper than the painting supplies

[Percymon]

I've started refurbing my set, one had a crack in the outer rim edge but i managed to repair that with some CA adhesive.

As to the other nicks at the edges, deeper ones i 'filled' with styrene* , prior to a light sanding. Smaller nicks disappeared with the sanding.

* an offcut of styrene sheet is very handy for these sorts of purposes, put some plastic magic or similar adhesive onto the sheet offcut, mix with a small paintbrush and you have a nice styrene solution, that can be painted quickly onto damaged areas. You need to be quick because the solvent loading in the adhesive is very high.

Repairs are invisible once sanded back, and being white in colour present no challenge to cover with paint.

Mine will be black inside and out as a base coat, with chrome finish on the outer face - all going to plan !

[WillyChang]

if you are actually going to USE the wheels... they flex a lot when running

superglue doesn't grab all that well to the nylon material used, nor most other common glues