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DYMAG Refinishing, part II
This morning I headed back up to the Ye Ole Wheel Shop in Elkridge, Maryland to check the status of the Dymag wheels I had left for repair last month.
As mentioned in “part I”, the Dymags were victim of some previous improper wheel repair and needed some attention – there was also a weld in the one wheel that seemed to be about an inch or so long…
I was pleasantly surprised upon arrival of the progress made on the pair. The one wheel had been smoothed over and all previous “trash” used to fill & seal the inside of the rim was gone. As I mentioned before, the proper way to keep your Dy’s in good shape is to coat them inside & out whenever you refinish them, this is the way they came new. The other wheel, the one with the crack, had a lot of repair going on with it.
Although we are unsure why it had cracked, the materials used in the previous attempt to fix turned out to be magnesium. This is very good, as I was led to believe by the seller that it might have been aluminum. If any other materials had been used, the pocket of repair would have had to been completely cut out and new magnesium put in place. While still “fixable”, the end results would have been much more time consuming on a delicate wheel.
New magnesium was added, as that crack once uncovered tuned out to be about 5.5” long under the finish! The materials were added both front & back, then smoothed out. The wheel itself isn’t taking to the stripping process well - this wheel is a challenge. They tried blasting it with media and have now turned to a fine sanding grit.
Stay tuned as we follow along the process – I should have more on this in the coming weeks.
