How To Bleach White SkyWays/Mags

[OldSkoolbmxs]

Okey i need a little help on bleaching skyway/mags to return them back to brillent white.

Tips/knowhow.

[ORB]

scrub en hard with any cleaning products you can find, lob en in a pot of bleech for a week and forget about em.

[OldSkoolbmxs]

Alright sounds easy 
Thanks for info

[theRuler]

expensive bleach too

buy a "big tub" from b & q

put some bricks in the bottom, to take up the space that the wheels wont reach
buy 20 quids worth of domestos from tescos

[darkslider]

Read something about dishwashers think it was on the batty site in U.S.A . Don't know what cycle or how long I can't afford these luxuries too many cars. Their worse than biatches.

[2Fresh]

I've gone thru mag bleaching two times. First a set on OGK/Performer mags and a set of Tuff II's.
Here's what i did, i hope the pictures will speak for themselves cause the actual article exists only in finnish:

Performer/OGK's was the first bleaching project and it was succesful:


The Tuffs:


At this point i had only washed the excess dirt/grease off:


A sink made of cardboard and plastic bag and some textile chlorine, a brush, some ceramic polisher and a bar soap. I added bleach liberately, say about 1/4th of bottle. Make sure to wear rubber gloves!


Mag #1 in bleach. Okay, this first photo is more yellowish than others because of indoor lighting and bad camera maneuvering but yes, they were still far from white:


After soaking for 2-3 days you begin to see the difference:



The final wash up and rinsing:



The final result:

[oberonspacefruit]

thats one big sink.

[dordymush]

i never thought of plastic lining a big cardboard box to put the wheels in.good idea that.

[CD17]

When I bleched my front alloy hubed Tuff II, the bleach started to attact the alloy hub, it had some pitting in it which took ages to polish out. 
My Plastic hub one was fine.

[aditup2004]

I have never had any joy bleaching wheels. Scrubbing is the only way forward I think, unless I was a bit tight on the bleach, maybe.

[Rombloke]

top quality bleach is the way to go...or if you use cheap bleach leave it for a few days unopened to reduce....it makes it stronger

Dave

[OldSkoolbmxs]

Top tips there,The pictures help alot 

[Flake]

2 Fresh top tip.     Just bleached my tuffs as your instructions and it has taken 20 years off them.
My tip off the day is to cover the alloy hubs in greese this stops the bleach attacking them 



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[Superkav]

Spot on with the bleaching guys except for one thing.  Cheap Tesco/Asda/Morrisons thin bleach is just as strong as thick Domestos and for 29p a bottle you can afford to buy 10 or more. Good tip on the grease to protect the alloy hub

[madall]

I have tried this in the past and the rear wheel came out a bit yellow so hit it with domestos straight to retain the off white discolour, I found the best way is to use Jif(Cif) as its now called and rub the hell out of them or even better get the Ball & Chain to do it for you while you watch the Footie