Can I bake my wheels at 200 degrees?

[Delboy]

Sounds like a good idea, go for it...remember, good preparation and patience for better results

[spenceley1]

So... Finally got round to sanding down and spraying my wheels... They are NOT baked yet, but I'm hoping/assuming they'll stay the same colour haha... Finished pic...

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This is a link to an album from start to finish if anyone is interested... http://imgur.com/a/Povrk

All in all I'm rather happy with the results, cost me £25 in total (3 cans of paint and some sand paper) and I enjoyed doing it, took me around 6-8 hours I'm guessing from start to finish (was slowly done bit by bit over few weeks)

I done about 5-6 coats of paint on each wheels, hence 3 cans of paint, because my wheels were black before and I couldn't get into every corner, but eventually I managed to cover everywhere :)

If anyone is thinking of doing it, advice would be to try get them sand blasted locally if possible, sanding gets pretty tedious and you can't get everywhere...

One last thing, asking for advice now... I was unable to get the grease seals out the front wheel for some reason, they seem pretty damn stuck? :/ obviously therefore can't get bearings out so not sure what to do? Maybe just bake and hope it loosens everything and just replace bearings?

Cheers :)
Sam

[bikemonkey]

You have to lever the seals out with something, they won't come out by hand

[spenceley1]

I tried with a flat bladed screwdriver, just as the haynes manual suggests... are they supposed to be really quite tough to get out?

[Drunkn Munky]

Some can be a pain, use a long screwdriver to get some leverage on it and make sure the blade of the screwdriver is placed under the seal. If its in the right place you can use fair amount of force without it slipping out.