Chroming wheels and swing arm.

[devo]

Fork!
I meant nyalic, not knickersill.
My bad.

ok, so i wont go looking for knicker wot ever then

[CookMySock]

tell me more about nikasil.have used nyalic on my boat and found it to be crap.

Do tell us more about your nyalic experiences, as there has been some discussion on nyalic here lately. Nikasil is a very expensive hard ceramic used to plate pistons and cylinders, usually in high-performance two stroke engines. It's use on wheels is likely to be hell-expensive. The suggestion of it being used in the case was a typo. (read back)

Steve

[devo]

Do tell us more about your nyalic experiences, as there has been some discussion on nyalic here lately. Nikasil is a very expensive hard ceramic used to plate pistons and cylinders, usually in high-performance two stroke engines. It's use on wheels is likely to be hell-expensive. The suggestion of it being used in the case was a typo. (read back)

Steve

I used as reccomended by the nyalic rep on a fibre glass boat to preserve the finish.
It was fine for a year, then started breaking up and blistering off.
I tried to remove it with white spirits as reccomended by the distributors, but it wouldnt shift,nor would it with anything else I tried.
The result is, I've now got this crap on my boat which I cant shift.
I have a couple of friends who have used it on there ally boats with the same results.

[vifferman]

I used as reccomended by the nyalic rep on a fibre glass boat to preserve the finish.
It was fine for a year, then started breaking up and blistering off.
I tried to remove it with white spirits as reccomended by the distributors, but it wouldnt shift,nor would it with anything else I tried.
The result is, I've now got this crap on my boat which I cant shift.
I have a couple of friends who have used it on there ally boats with the same results.

Hmmmm... thanks for that - it's good to know.
My recommendation of Nyalic for protecting polished aloy wheels was based on a recommendation from an Aussie mate who used it on his wheels. I have no personal experience of it myself. When I stripped'n'polished my VFR750 wheeeeeeels, I just used a bit of Autosol every 6 months or so. They were a piece of piss to keep clean compared to the white paint that used to be on them.
One day when my VFR800's wheels are a bit more scratched (they're not too good now), I'm going to do the same with them. Bit pointless at the mo, as the paint on the bodywork's looking a bit untidy.

[boman]

Yea my old bosses wife had polished alloys on her car. Every 6 months or so we took the wheels off the car, and repolished with autusol, or Mother aluminium polish. Found a cotton buff in M10 which i can use on my drill, it works really well on alloy. Brings the surface to quite a shine.

[devo]

Just done the same with the front wheel on my speedy.
Stripped of the paint and polished up with 3M paint stripping wheels, then autosol on a cloth buff.To keep the shine a bit longer and hopefully minimise water spotting I hand polished with mcguiers deep crystal polish.(no2 of the 3 step system).
Will have to wait and see how it weathers.

[phoenixcustom]

Cheers all i will have to have a long hard think about whats best, thanks for all your feedback.

[Hinny]

Just done the same with the front wheel on my speedy.
Stripped of the paint and polished up with 3M paint stripping wheels, then autosol on a cloth buff.To keep the shine a bit longer and hopefully minimise water spotting I hand polished with mcguiers deep crystal polish.(no2 of the 3 step system).
Will have to wait and see how it weathers.

That wheel looks superb.