This is just for you, RodKnock....

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

But of course. Yet, the color change was imperceptible to your home viewer.

Well you know that's not true. Here are the before and after pics. I did a beautiful job.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Well you know that's not true. Here are the before and after pics. I did a beautiful job.

For all I know, you photoshopped those pics.

And this is what a magnesium wheel would look like with the coating. No perfectly polished lips. Even Chas' mag wheels, when polished, didn't look as nice as your wheels.

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

For all I know, you photoshopped those pics.

And this is what a magnesium wheel would look like with the coating. No perfectly polished lips. Even Chas' mag wheels, when polished, didn't look as nice as your wheels.

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:



The color is very similar to the color of Patrick's spokes (in my opinion).

The lips on a magnesium wheel can also be dow7 coated (like these are) or they can be bare magnesium (which gradually turns a darker and darker gray as it oxidizes, until it is almost black- Just like the wheels in the picture of CSX4323), or the lips can be polished bare magnesium, which has a shine similar to polished nickel (mag wheel on the right, aluminum wheel on the left:



the darker the shade of gray a set of real mag wheels are, the more neglected they have been; but another point that I agree with Patrick on, is that the blue-gray color of the center spokes of Trigo wheels looks nothing like ANY shade of gray that you would ever see on a genuine Magnesium Halibrand...

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:

...

The color is very similar to the color of Patrick's spokes (in my opinion).

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by patrickt

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

Whether you're a pro dart player or not, a bullseye is a bullseye....

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

Whether you're a pro dart player or not, a bullseye is a bullseye....

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago. I know what they look like brand new. And they don't look anything like the hot rod wheels you posted.

Oy vey. At least pick a Cobra wheel to refute my post.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago.

I remember that. You know, if you had bought those wheels, the salt air would have eaten them away by now anyway.

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I almost purchased a set of real magnesium Cobra II wheels many years ago. I know what they look like brand new. And they don't look anything like the hot rod wheels you posted.

Oy vey. At least pick a Cobra wheel to refute my post.

Why?, because magnesium cobra-style wheels are somehow different than other magnesium wheels...? They don't oxidize the same way as other mag wheels do over time?

I suppose being on a Cobra makes them *magic*...

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

In my life, I have blindly stumbled in to success far more often than having cleverly earned it.

Or the simpler version: "Better to be lucky than smart."

You were neither lucky nor smart when you picked beige for a Cobra color. Or a wheel color for that matter.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

You posted a picture of painted aluminum wheels, in order to show what a coated magnesium wheel looks like...

Here's what a real, Dow7 coated magnesium wheel actually looks like:

You're a genius!

So, you post a real Dow7 coated wheel that's not a real magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel? Doh!

Hoping I've inserted this picture of a brand new REAL MAGNESIUM COBRA II WHEEL properly. Looks like the image that quickly I grabbed of the alloy Vintage Wheels' Cobra wheel is VERY SIMILAR to a new magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel. Go figure.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

but another point that I agree with Patrick on, is that the blue-gray color of the center spokes of Trigo wheels looks nothing like ANY shade of gray that you would ever see on a genuine Magnesium Halibrand...

Originally Posted by patrickt

From a distance, and with pad dust on them, they will pass for magnesium. The original color finish for Trigos basically just sucks.

Actually that's not what Patrick said. He said the Trigo color sucks, nothing to do with their similarity to magnesium in terms of appearance.

Personally, I think the Trigo color is fine. And I think Patrick's color is "six of one half dozen of the other." As I said above, I might get a set of the Vintage Wheels' version since they're close to real Halibrands.