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02-22-2017, 03:29 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RodKnock
Patrick has color-keyed Trigos. He had a thread about repainting his wheels the same color as the body.
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Yep, nice, lengthy, detailed thread... of course.  |
02-22-2017, 03:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
Yep, nice, lengthy, detailed thread... of course. |
But of course. Yet, the color change was imperceptible to your home viewer. |
02-22-2017, 06:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RodKnock
But of course. Yet, the color change was imperceptible to your home viewer.
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Well you know that's not true. Here are the before and after pics. I did a beautiful job.
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02-22-2017, 06:51 PM
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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg[/ame]
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02-22-2017, 10:07 PM
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I'm not a big fan of color coded wheels but Pat's wheels make for a nice color.
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02-23-2017, 10:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rodneym
I'm not a big fan of color coded wheels but Pat's wheels make for a nice color.
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Agree!
The color of the center spokes looks more "magnesium-ish" in the after-pic.
Nicely done.
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02-23-2017, 10:13 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by moore_rb
Agree!
The color of the center spokes looks more "magnesium-ish" in the after-pic.
Nicely done.
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From a distance, and with pad dust on them, they will pass for magnesium.  The original color finish for Trigos basically just sucks.  |
02-23-2017, 12:02 PM
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Quote:
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. |
02-23-2017, 12:07 PM
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Or look like this from CSX4323.
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02-23-2017, 12:39 PM
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Well, I never really intended to mimic the mag look. It just turned out that way a bit. Mostly, I just hated the original Trigo finish from day one.
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02-25-2017, 07:19 PM
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old english white
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Beautiful & historic Cobra ... great photo! |
02-26-2017, 09:23 AM
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Quote:
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...
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02-26-2017, 09:34 AM
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Quote:
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:
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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. |
02-26-2017, 09:41 AM
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Quote:
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....
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02-26-2017, 09:54 AM
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Get your spray can out Robert I am coming over with my Trigos! I have to agree that I think the magnesium look would be better than the standard finish. Especially on a Kirkham.
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02-26-2017, 12:56 PM
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For anyone interested, the technique I used, adhesion enhancers and all, begin on page four or so of this lengthy thread: Here You Go Chas. - The Finest Fluoroelastomer |
02-26-2017, 01:48 PM
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i dont think it is very cool to create magnesium lookalike with coating or paint,
what is really cool are these black brown anodized (magnesium) wheels
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02-26-2017, 02:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peterpjb
i dont think it is very cool to create magnesium lookalike with coating or paint,
what is really cool are these black brown anodized (magnesium) wheels
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Remember, all of these cars, and everything on them, are fake. Expensive, but still just fake little toys. |
02-26-2017, 02:56 PM
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Quote:
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Remember, all of these cars, and everything on them, are fake. Expensive, but still just fake little toys. |
not necessarily ...
a magnesium wheel is a real magnesium wheel even when it is produced in 2017 and a magnesium lookalike coated wheel is a magnesium fake wheel even when it was produced in 1965..
the fact that most cars don't have a sixties vin isn't any excuse to fake anything on the cars...
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02-26-2017, 03:25 PM
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Quote:
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.
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