[CR]Cleaning built wheels

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From: Thomas L. Hayes <hayesbikes@nls.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:10:49 -0600
Subject: [CR]Cleaning built wheels

Perhaps I have been taking too much cold and flu medicine, but in one of my hallucinations, I thought or pictured (vision never became clear, however) to myself that a better, an easier, a less tedious way must exist for cleaning wheels and rims that come to one aleady built than the way in which I do it. These are wheels that have twenty years of grunge on them, but are not rusty, and are worth saving. My current method is the following: cleaning fluid, by hand, then some chrome polish, then some fine steel wool, and then some buffing. It takes me approximately an hour and half to do this, depending upon how crungy the rim is.

Actually it's not that I have better things to do with my time, with the cold-flu and a foot of snow outside, but I'd like try to find if my time might produce quicker rewards.

Anyone with some sure-fire methods that they'd share, I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

Cheers.

Tom Hayes
Chagrin Falls, Ohio