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De-furring aluminium ..?
Hi all,
I decided to do something about the slow 'puncture' on the front wheel of my little runabout motorbike (Honda CB 'Two Fifty') that I was pretty confident was caused by corrosion / flakey paint between the (tubeless) tyre and ally rim. I removed the tyre today and I was right, loads of ally 'fur' in there? ;-( So my intention is to just clean the inside of the rims out (I'm doing the rear as well although that tyre was tubed so not leaking), spray them with some acid-etch primer and a few coats of car spray paint to seal them up. Normally I would do a full refurb on such things (like getting them bead blasted etc) but the bikes not worth it .. so as long as I sort the corrosion out and it looks 'ok' when finished that will do this time. I was wondering if there was an easy_to_obtain_and_use chemical that would remove this 'corrosion' (sulphate?) easily please? (like vinegar on lime scale etc). If not I'll just stick a medium wire brush in the electric drill? All the best .. T i m p.s. And it was interesting to find a 55.1 x 16 inner tube all buckled up in the 4.1 x 16 rear tyre .. another reminder should one be needed why I like to do / check these things myself ... |
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