Any pinstripers on here ever try and reproduce the double line on the Ford wheels?

Any pinstripers on here ever try and reproduce the double line on the Ford wheels? Just wondering how big of a job this would be for a striper?

 

i know there are guys that can do it......a buddy and i figured on a fixture to be able to rotate the wheel with out jerking it around as you spin it.....its not as easy as it would seem .......spin a wheel , hold a brush ....and hope the lines end up meeting ......hahaha brandon

 

I've heard of people jacking up the car and spinning the wheel while holding the brush with some kind of jig. Also heard of people putting the wheel on some kind of turn table and doing the same thing.

maybe using one of those Beugler Striping tools they sell at swap meets or on the web might be the trick to maintaining a line with a uniform width.

 

don't know if it works for your application, but if they are concentric around the perimeter, you can use an old recordplayer/turntable and a bucket or paint can, I think.


put the bucket or can on the record player, put the wheel on the can, turn on the record player, paint your stripes.

I saw this on one of those cl***ic car rebuild shows on DIY network or something. They were restoring a cl***ic Packard and used the above mentioned technique.

try their website, you may get lucky

 

Ive done it on motorcycles with a brush just by spinning the wheel ,It has always seemed to work

 

i've done it on bicycle wheels...around the rim and hub

theres always a guy at hershey selling something that clips in the center of the wheel to hold one of those roller striper tools that seems to do a great job

good luck
zach

 

Done a few of those, these in the picture are from LaSalle, but the basic idea works on Ford as well. The biggest problem tends to be the unbalance of the wheel. No matter how smooth and nice a wheel is, there's always a slight unevennes found somewhere. The brush is the best way to find them, when there's a lump on the surface the line gets thicker and when there's a hole it gets thinner. Be sure that the painted surface is perfect, any imperfections will spill the line.
You need some kind of rotating thing under the wheel itself. It can be a piece of plywood with a bearing attached to a table or sometimes the axles may work as well. The paint must be very thin, and the brush must have quite long hair fully soaked with paint.
You can try to spin the wheel with your other hand and when the wheel spins nicely, not very fast though, you just lower the brush and let it touch the wheel gently. You propably have to wipe the paint off a couple of times before the line is nice but eventually it works. Best is to have a friend to rotate the wheel.

Good luck!
- Pekka

 

I have done it to a wheelbarrow by spinning it (don't ask) worked out just fine.

 

I tried it

but I'd rather not talk about it.

 

The beugler is the way to go here. Just put the guide on the rim and pull. It has heads with different size single and double lines so you can pretty much get any width stripe you want.

Doc.

 

i had it done on the wheels shown here ( in the picture it looks like one wide one, but is actually two narrow ones) the guy had an electric motor on a turn table to turn them real slow and then just held the brush by hand

 

I made up a fixture for striping wheels that locates to the wheel's center hole. Old pics taken for a quick reference , but hope they're self-explanatory. The tapered wooden 'bung' accommodates different size holes and the linkage allows placing wheel stripes anywhere you want 'em pretty quickly.

 

Tagman, what is laying down the paint?

 

Sorry - I'm not the best 'splainer in the world

The gl*** bottle, in the lower, right-hand corner of the first pic, is a el-cheapo pin striping rig from J.C. Whitney and it works great. There's a serrated wheel on the cover that picks up the paint from the bottle and lays it down on the wheel like a Beugler striper.

 

I have a buegler striper somewhere.....I may try building a jig like the one you posted. That's neat.

 

Tagman:
And you didn't post this as a Tech piece? What a GREAT layout!!! I might even have to make a modified version(with your permission of course)to use with a brush.Fantastic piece of work and simple too!!!
Ray

 

That's probably the way to go Root, don't think Rick could even do that without a jig.

 

No sweat, safariknut - mi fixture, es su fixture

I didn't post this as a tech article 'cause I didn't think it was that big a deal. I couldn't lay down a decent line to save my *** and when you're cheap like me, you improvise !!

 

Here's Alex Olivera striping my wheels. He used my floor jack to support the wheel and then free handed the stripes while rotating the wheel. He would have prefered to do it with out the tire installed as the valve stem gave him some trouble initially, but that wasn't an option.

 

I did this to the wheels on my 40 Ford sedan a long time ago and a ol' sign painter that did all the sign painting for Coke Bottling co. here in Anderson striped the wheels on their trucks along with all the lettering,,,

He clued me in on his way of painting the lines on the wheels,,,by mounting the wheel on an old spindle bolted to the wall in the shop he worked out of,,,,,

That's the way I did it and I used a 00 mack brush and 1-shot enamel,,,,I wont say the first one was very good but by the time I did the forth,,,,I was ready to re-paint the first,,,,,,HRP

 

I'll second that motion.