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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:48 am
by chickenjohn
Just use normal paint! hammerite/ smoothrite/chassis black, whatever!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:34 am
by bmcecosse
Polo2K - you got it in 1 !
I will admit to painting the backplates of my W brakes with chassis black - because I don't want them going rusty. But brake drums never rust through - they crack/warp/wear on the inside - but never known one to rust through yet!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:48 pm
by polo2k
I was expecting a really hard ripping! kinda relived that i didnt get one.
Shame the BBQ paint wasnt all it could have been
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:49 pm
by wibble_puppy
polo2k wrote:While its nice to have them immaculate, they are brake drums. They are illusive little buggers and not often the main point of consideration on a car. As long as they are black(or what ever color you want) and not peeling, does it matter about the finish on them?
Nah, not really. To be honest I am regretting this whole enterprise now, wish I'd not bothered with this expensive stuff. As bmcecosse says, they go rusty but you'd have to put one on the sea bed for hundreds of years for it to actually rust through.
I guess though, the point of this thread is, I have in fact now spent my hard-earned on this expensive stuff, I have in fact now painted the bits with it, and I would quite like to know if anyone has worked out a way, short of buying a kiln, of curing it to the accurate temperatures specified
Like I said, I respect the kind of guys who can jack a car up and put mirrors beneath, but isnt this hobby mostly about enjoying the car
(I shouldn`t think that Sir alec Issigonis payed much attention to the astetics of the brakes)
Yeah this van isn't going to be concours (it can't exactly ever be that, given the darn-fool colour I've painted it
)
Welcome to the forum, polo2k
wibble xx
ps big man, you scare me
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:18 pm
by minor_hickup
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Thank you sir...and crikey o'blimey thats some heat!
My brother's car has in the past had it's drums painted in grey enamal. Must have been done over 5 years ago as that's when the previous owner died. The paint is still perfect. Maybe this is the best bet.