hey all!
i have a set of Work Ewing 3 peice mesh wheels that i have been restoring. first things first: the wheels have been welded into 1 peice so nothing can be removed so the face plate cant/couldnt be removed!..
ok, so now this is my problem. the rims started off with a polished lip/dish on the outside of them, but i got them sand blasted to remove some super thick 2pot paint in the most hard to reach places and they blasted the whole rim, dish/lip of the rim aswell.
Im pretty sure the lip of the rim was originally chrome.. either way, it was polished! anyway the lip has been 'frosted' now and none of the chrome has come off (assuming it has chrome on it).
heres my question. what would be the best way to polish this lip to a mirror finish/back to the chrome plating.
i was going to just put it on the car and have the rim rotating, and go through the grades of sand paper on it from corse to fine (wet sanding), just holding the paper on the lip as its rotating. then finishing off with some polishing compound, autosol or something similar. would this work? hopefully i can get it down smooth enough without taking off the chrome.
here is a pic of the original rim/lip of the wheel so you know what i want it to look like again.
and heres a pic of what the rims look like now
Thanks in advanced!