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Wheel & Rim Refinishing
Pete's Tire Barns maintains a dedicated wheel refinishing plant to serve our customers. The wheel are picked up by our service trucks and delivered to the plant for cleaning and powder coating.
Click here to see a video tour of Wheel and Rim Refinishing Plant
| Rusty wheels arrive by truck at wheel refinishing plant. They have been loaded on pallets and marked as to what customer they belong to and what color and type of finish they will have. |
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Preparation
The wheels come into the wheel refinishing shop covered with dirt and rust. Before the wheel can be painted, it must be completely clean. The wheels are loaded into automated blasting machines that use small steel shot to blast away the rust and grime. The wheels are then hand inspected and if any rust rust or old paint remains, it is removed by hand and the wheel is sent back into the blasting machine for additional cleaning.
Once the wheel is cleaned it heads to powder coating. The wheels can be straight powder coated or they can have a treatment of zinc primer to ensure corrosion resistance. |
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Powder Coating
Once the wheel arrives at powder coating it is loaded into the powder coating booth. A negative charge is applied to the wheel and the paint is sprayed on with a positive charge. The negatie charge of the wheel draws the paint in and creates a smooth uniform surface.
Wheels can be powder coated with many different colors. The standard colors are white, gray, black, and red. Custom colors are available to meet the customers needs. |
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Curing
Once the wheel has been painted it will travel through the curing oven to ensure a smooth surface and protect the final finish. |
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Inspection
Once the wheels leave the oven for the final time they are brought to the final inspection area. The wheels cool and are then hand inspected before being loaded back onto pallets to be delivered back to our customers. |
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