protecting wheels

[Grendel]

Just wandering if there is a way to protect the new spokes on a wheel since looks as if I am getting my wheel back from the re-builders with a new rim and spokes and wandered what is the best way to keep it good. Should I spray liberally with WD40 or coat with that ACF-50 before I re-fit it? On the other hand, is it just an aging process of TA wheels that bugger all can be done about?

[AIRWOLF]

Just wandering if there is a way to protect the new spokes on a wheel since looks as if I am getting my wheel back from the re-builders with a new rim and spokes and wandered what is the best way to keep it good. Should I spray liberally with WD40 or coat with that ACF-50 before I re-fit it? On the other hand, is it just an aging process of TA wheels that bugger all can be done about?

Did'nt you have stainless spokes? if so no problem

ACF50 would seem a good precaution anyway

The original lasted 15 years so you should be OK for a while

[Dilbert]

I always used to use WD40 on spokes, wheel rims, etc to keep them shiney (for a while), but it's a long time since I worried about these things and now I don't have to even think about spokes at all

[Lord Stig]

I use Waxoil, but it attracts the dirt. On the back wheel, oil from my chain oiler normally does the trick anyway! I find WD40 and the Scottoil spray don't last long enough to work well.

I had a wheel rebuilt using what appeared to be well galvanized spokes, but they rusted very quickly - it certainly would be worth doing something to delay that. In hindsight it might have been worth painting them before the oil got on them, but I figured they would be at least as good as the OEM ones.

[AIRWOLF]

I use Waxoil, but it attracts the dirt. On the back wheel, oil from my chain oiler normally does the trick anyway! I find WD40 and the Scottoil spray don't last long enough to work well.

I had a wheel rebuilt using what appeared to be well galvanized spokes, but they rusted very quickly - it certainly would be worth doing something to delay that. In hindsight it might have been worth painting them before the oil got on them, but I figured they would be at least as good as the OEM ones.

I was told the plating on spokes etc is not so effective these days because some of the old 'ingredients' are not allowed to be used any more !!
something to do with this 'green lot'

[Lord Stig]

Ah - I wonder if that's the cadmium? I remember when I used to sell power tools from 1987-94 that it was better to buy a Japanese battery drill than a German one because the Japanese hadn't signed up to the agreements on cadmium reduction like the Germans had. As a result the batteries lasted far longer...

[Dilbert]

Ah - I wonder if that's the cadmium? I remember when I used to sell power tools from 1987-94 that it was better to buy a Japanese battery drill than a German one because the Japanese hadn't signed up to the agreements on cadmium reduction like the Germans had. As a result the batteries lasted far longer...

Probably is Stig, we aren't allowed to use any "heavy metals" (no Raven not Metallica ) this is because it's difficult to dispose of, makes me laugh a bit that they're even bothered about a few cad plated bolts, mixed in with all the glow in the dark