Author Topic: Resto advice for yellow (steel hubbed) Tuff II's (Read 1805 times)

Chromo Buzz · « **on:** October 11, 2011, 10:40 PM »

Evening chap's,

Hoping you guy's can point me in the right direction on a dilema i have $:-\$ .......i spotted some yellow tuff's on Ebay.com late one night for a BIN price that was too good to turn down (though no Int. shipping), though i believe if you dont ask you dont get. Emailed the seller & he said yes (top bloke)

, they arrived in 1 week from the states & no custom's charge which was a result!! My dilema is do i dye them (yellow) or after reading another thread on here do i get them aqua blasted??

Here's the one's from the state's

In the photo's they look pretty sweet, i want to put these on a carpet queen so they need to be 10/10

Now about 8 months ago i had another pair of yellow tuff's which were faded so i went down the dyeing route, though stupidly i read a thread on here wrong & put 3pkt's of dye instead of 2....doh!! They went from this

to this

Then tried dyeing them to red & fooked up, so they are gonna be black now. Dont wanna screw these one's up, so any advice would be greatly appreciated

sid1972 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2011, 10:46 PM »

I would try the less aggressive option first - the old dish washer..

If that fails - very, very fine wet and dry paper to remove the discolour and some good neutral boot polish.

and then Aqua blast if its not the result you want - I can give you the details of the chap I used in my thread.

if that does not do it dye em.

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2011, 11:28 PM »

simple - try bleaching them - the colour should fade out if it's not had a fixer added - won't hurt to try - will need to polish up metal parts after - couple of days in a check regularly

cheers B

ukoldschool · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2011, 09:10 AM »

I think hes after advice on what to do with the yellow tuffs he's just bought rather than the other ones which he's already fecked up

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2011, 10:18 AM »

my mistake

if you dye them used DYLON DYE / GOLDEN GLOW x 2

the orange one's will dye to red if you want - you just need to get the technique right and use the right stuff

here's a quick way of doing it

the Gorden Ramsay way of dying wheels [/size]

take 1 set of OGK's - slightly faded

wash

pick out any dirty bits missed

scrape off any brake marks

bleach

hot water

salt

dye

put in and leave for 24 hours - turning and stirring every so often

cover

take out and wash in cold water - then dry

now ready to serve - i mean ride - DONE

cheers B[/size]

BMX1973 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2011, 09:25 PM »

great result there bendy

Quote from: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on October 12, 2011, 10:18 AM

my mistake

if you dye them used DYLON DYE / GOLDEN GLOW x 2

the orange one's will dye to red if you want - you just need to get the technique right and use the right stuff

here's a quick way of doing it

the Gorden Ramsay way of dying wheels [/size]

take 1 set of OGK's - slightly faded

wash

pick out any dirty bits missed

scrape off any brake marks

bleach

hot water

salt

dye

put in and leave for 24 hours - turning and stirring every so often

cover

take out and wash in cold water - then dry

now ready to serve - i mean ride - DONE

cheers B[/size]

Chromo Buzz · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2011, 09:55 PM »

Quote from: ukoldschool on October 12, 2011, 09:10 AM

I think hes after advice on what to do with the yellow tuffs he's just bought rather than the other ones which he's already fecked up

You were spot on mate, it was the new one's i needed the advice on

Chromo Buzz · « **Reply #7 on:** October 12, 2011, 10:05 PM »

Excellent work on those OGK's Bendycat

, it was your thread i followed last time but i fecked up on by putting one too many packets of the dye in the pot

They ended up like this when i tried dyeing them red

I'm gonna dye these black now, they will go on an 85 Sport (future build) f/forks powdered in yellow with black components, So all is not lost

Thanks again guy's for your advice

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2011, 01:51 PM »

I can only guess that it is where you get a top layer on skyway mags - this looks faded and mostly on the inside of the spokes and not the spines of the spokes so to speak - it looks like a layer of dust that won't move

when doing up skyways you some times have a load of this on them - this needs to be removed or it can show up after a dye as dark patches

I guess you have three things to try here - sand them down again and this will take a long time with hard work - or auqa blast them but cost big money or dye them black and polish up the hubs to a good finish to make them look good

B