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leehunt1

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Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« on: October 31, 2012, 04:29 PM »
Can anyone please tell me if its ok to clean (make whiter) by soaking in bleach and hot water..?
or is there a better way..?
also they are white and i need to fill a small ding, what could i use thats white ..?

Offline Dannywhac

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 04:32 PM »
If you're gonna bleach em, make sure (if they're alloy hubbed) you cover the alloy in vaseline - otherwise the bleach eats the alloy.

Don;t think there's owt you can use to fill dings fella if you're gonna ride it.
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deeman

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2012, 09:18 AM »
There is a restoration sticky on how to bleach mags.In my experience it's a pain in the butt to do and i don't particularly like what it does to the plastic.The solution most people seem to employ these days with white mags is to have them aqua blasted to bring them back white.I have a beigey set of alloy hubbed tuffs which will be going for this treatment shortly! :daumenhoch:

leehunt1

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2012, 09:33 AM »
cheers..! were will you be taking them for aqua blast?


deeman

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2012, 09:50 AM »
cheers..! were will you be taking them for aqua blast?



Probably be sending them to Metal Magic in Barnsley,as recommended by another member on here.I can't seem to find anywhere locally that does it. :daumenhoch:

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2012, 09:58 AM »
Here's one in Derbyshire (not sure where you are based?), not used them but have been looking for somewhere locally that offers it

http://www.restorationsupplies.org.uk

leehunt1

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2012, 10:09 AM »
Cool thanks - both barnsley and chesterfield are not to bad for me


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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2012, 10:22 AM »
Keep us posted on how you get on  :daumenhoch:

deeman

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Re: Cleaning & repairing tuff 11 wheels
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2012, 10:31 AM »
Here's one in Derbyshire (not sure where you are based?), not used them but have been looking for somewhere locally that offers it

http://www.restorationsupplies.org.uk


Cool mate,I'm in Watford though! :daumenhoch:

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