Buy a chevy to wide 5 adapter. Balancing solved. A tire is a tire. If the local is charging you an arm and a leg go elsewhere. Besides my dubs are known around here and getting tires and such done is considered a challenge. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:38 AM To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: Painting bus rims (Mark Jenkins) besides that, how many places are there that will break down a wide five wheel????? cause, the only a$$hole around here wants to charge me $25 a tire and then said he would have my bus for a week and asked if i had any extra rims cause he might bend the tabs where the lug bolts go. hell, i can do it for cheaper in an hour. >From: Will <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [tcb] Re: Painting bus rims (Mark Jenkins) >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:35:01 -0500 > >Then why go through the effort? With the tires removed the whole wheel can >be done. Most places around here charge 10 bucks to r&r tires. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:57 AM >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [tcb] Re: Painting bus rims (Mark Jenkins) > >if your careful it won't you just have to really know what you're doing. i >didn't eat up my rubber seal around my windshield when i brought the front >end back down to metal. you just have to be careful and not shoot directly >on to the tire. some runoff sand hitting the tire won't hurt it at all. but >you won't be able to do the outside edge of the rim (the part that is >against the tire) with the tire on. > > > >From: "Eric Woodall" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [tcb] Re: Painting bus rims (Mark Jenkins) > >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:47:50 -0500 (CDT) > > > >No way. > >That sand would chew up the rubber like crazy... > > > > > >vw1971 said: > > > Everyone, > > > > > > Can you sand blast the steel rims with the tires still on them? Is it > > > safe? > > > > > > Trey > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/13/07, Peter Albarian <pcalbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> I have a big blast cabinet in my shop you are welcome to use, but I > > >> think > > >> you may be too far away from San Antonio. > > >> > > >> BlackBerry service provided by Nextel > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: vw1971 <treyjung@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> > > >> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:02:36 > > >> To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> Subject: [tcb] Painting bus rims (Mark Jenkins) > > >> > > >> > > >> Mark J. might help me out here. I think he painted his rims. > > >> > > >> I want to paint my bus rims white ( they are silver now) Mark did you > > >> sand > > >> blast them first? > > >> > > >> Anyone know where you can get rims sand blasted? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Trey > > >> > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to >win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink