Painting wheels

[Gern]

No. Not the one about how to paint tyres!

Nothing spectacular, but how many times have you had to paint the two sides of a wheel in two sessions 'cos you need to put it down when you've painted one side?

Wrap a bit of tape around the wheel:



Grab the tape as close to the wheel as you can get to stop it waving around



Grab your clip with a clamp of some description



Now you can paint both sides and put it down to dry without touching the fresh paint.

See? I told you it was nothing spectacular!

[Mr Bowcat]

Nice.

I tend to mount wheels on a cocktail stick, spray both sides and mount them in a bit of foam while they dry.

[Gern]

Nice.

I tend to mount wheels on a cocktail stick, spray both sides and mount them in a bit of foam while they dry.

That's my normal 'go to' as well, but the fixing holes are too big on these wheels.

[Tim Marlow]

That's my normal 'go to' as well, but the fixing holes are too big on these wheels.

Try bamboo skewers then Dave. They work for the slightly larger holes, as do squares of balsa wood or plastic card. The impaling item doesn’t have to be round to work….. . Your idea is a good one as well though.

[Gern]

Try bamboo skewers then Dave. They work for the slightly larger holes, as do squares of balsa wood or plastic card. The impaling item doesn’t have to be round to work….. . Your idea is a good one as well though.

Too big for skewers as well Tim. Must remember I could use other shapes too - thanks.

[Si Benson]

No such thing as a bad idea….I’ll have to remember this :thumb2:

I normally do the toothpick/ bamboo skewer trick or the really thin wooden stirrers .

[Airborne01]

My missus gave me a container of redundant knitting needles - all sizes, all in pairs and wooden to boot! There's a size for everything!
Steve

[Andy T]

My missus gave me a container of redundant knitting needles - all sizes, all in pairs and wooden to boot! There's a size for everything!
Steve

Funny that. We were clearing some stuff out of the mother in laws house and there was a stack of knitting needles. The hoarder in me thought they'd come in handy for something but the wife said NO! :smiling5:

[Mr Bowcat]

That's my normal 'go to' as well, but the fixing holes are too big on these wheels.

Tape wrapped around the end of the cocktail stick/skewer to make it the right size. :smiling3:

As an amateur machinist I'm always having to come up with ways to fixture parts. :tears-of-joy:

[Scratchbuilder]

If the cocktail stick is too small, get a length of spare kit sprue hold it over a candle and stretch it a little to get the size you want.

[wasdale32]

If (like most of us I suspect) have a large stash of coffee shop stirrers they can be split to mount the wheels - or just squash the end of a cut off cocktail stick.

I use an offcut of MDF with lots of holes drilled to support the sticks while drying