Krylon whites

After watching the excellant video of the WW grinding it got me to thinking.Has anyone ever painted there tires with the krylon? How long does it last?
I was thinking of just painting from the Narrow white thats on there now to the rim.Has anyone done that? if So got any pics of them?
I'm just skeptical of grinding my tres!!lol.
JimV

 

Brewsir did Krylon Fusion whitewalls on his truck and said they held up really well. It'd be easy to touch them up if they ever got scuffed. I plan to do it to a set of tires for my '55 Dodge, I'll post the results when it's done.

I'm a bit skeptical of grinding tires too, although it's been done many times and I haven't had any reports of failure yet.

 

A buddy of mine painted one of his tires with paint and another with kind of a rubber type dip don't recall the name. So far both are holding up the same. Can post progress reports if needed.

 

Squa, I've straight worn out 2 sets of my homeground tires, no grinding related issues at all.

That said, I tried painting one of my tires just to see what would happen, and it worked well. I used my 80 grit DA to sand all the letters off so I had a nice smooth tire to paint. It's nice because you can make the WWW as wide as you want, your not limited by what's there. There's a post a page or two down with some good testamonials on it.

Edit, found it: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115223&&showall=1

 

Here's a set I did in Oct, and have driven on them alot

 

Sorry for the huge picture just wanted to make sure you could see the detail

 

Good to hear that you tried the paint too with good results. I did a couple test-grinds on some old white letter tires and I felt a lot better about the ground whitewalls, the problem comes in with the whitewall sizes.

My RWL tires had a very uneven white ring on them, and the whitewall didn't go all the way to the bead. So I'm going to try the paint so I can make the white as wide as I need. My tire grinding experience gave me a good idea of what I need to do to get my tires flat and smooth. I don't want to paint over any lettering or sidewall "clutter" and I want to have a clean, sanded and prepped surface before I put the paint on so it looks nice.

I'm also going to make some redline tires and some dual-stripe whitewall tires (like Vogues) for my '64 Oldsmobile. There's just no where else to get those and it'd be impossible to grind two separate lines into a tire, not to mention a red stripe.

Great tech though.

 

i did from the skinny whites to the rim with the pen tire paint from autozoze took two days after work and 8 or 9 pens at 3somthing each,but worked well for three months till i sold car.

 

I've said it before here. In 1964 I was in the Bay area, and a guy would come around and would cut a 1/4 inch groove, about 1/32 deep then glue in any color ya want. Most chose blue or red. Looked real good. Would be perfect for 2 fine lines.................OLDBEET

 

KKUSTOM,Those are Krylon fusion paint? How did you get the edges so even?
JimV

 

Yeah they are the satin fusion paint. I taped off the tire and rim then sprayed, And I even did it while they were on the car!!

 

After I burned through the white on a couple of small spots when I was grinding my skinnies out, I bought some white Plasti-Dip spray paint (I went looking for fusion and they didn't have it) and those spots are holding up OK. The biggest problem I can is trying to mask the damn things off!

 

For masking, I found that if I did the edge with electrical tape, I got a much smoother edge than trying to get the masking tape to corner.

 

Electrical tape? That's a great idea if it works. Does the tape stick OK to the tire?

 

It sticks to the tire "OK", it doesn't stick "great." I did the edge with the electrical tape, then used 2" masking tape from there out. Just be sure that it's pressed down well right before you start painting. I got the idea from 3M's blue plastic fineline striping tape.

 

I just used 2 inch wide green 3m tape, work great for me

 

Jimv,

I don't know, if anyone uses latex paint anymore to paint white walls. An old timer told me that's what they use to use. Who knows???????????

Be cool

Cruiser 49

 

Latex will work in the short term, but eventually it will peel off. All the old time tales I've heard about latex included re-painting every month or two.

 

latex comes off pretty fast when you do radials...too much flex.

The last set I spray painted was on a brand new set of radials from Walmart...I used satin and gloss because thats what I had laying around...gloss first then satin....I don't know if I didn't clean the tires good enough before spraying or what,but they came out bad...turned brown in 2 days and bubbled up badly. So I remasked them a week or so later and they still look pretty bad....so now I have had I really good experience and one really bad.

 

I talked with KKustoms at the St. Paul car show and he is a kick-**** pinstriper. He had some of his work there and it was sweet.

 

It's probably got to do with the mold release that is left on the tires. Older used tired have been washed/weathered enough that the tire is mostly "dry", where a new tire is still fresh and "wet." It's like trying to paint a tire that has Armor All on it.

 

I just did mine today and worked great. I chose a flat white krylon and it looks really good. I did the outside of the rim and tirewith 1" and masked over the rim with 2" so i wouldnt get overspray on it.

Make sure to clean the tires first! And you can remove unwanted paint on rubber with a scotch pad or something like that, i'm sure - although I didnt have to.

Scott

 

maybe it's the glossy krylon ****s. i tried to use it like a vinyl die which i've done before but somehow got a can of gloss instead of satin. i sprayed the door panels 6 weeks ago and they are still sticky like they are tacking up to dry..........6 weeks............. all that because the off white in my NEW two tone door panels was a few shades different than my off white seat covers hahaha. i only srayed the drivers front and the rear seat drivers panel so only half of it is ruined hahahaa. it's really not funny. i'd say what they are for but it'd just be censored and edited out hahaha...ken....

 

Thanks man, didnt realize I talked to anyone from the HAMB at that show.
Was it you I talked to about striping a dash??

 

gesso from the an art supply store is the best for painting tires
that i have found,haven't seen anyone discuss yellowing but
gesso is not susceptable that problem...a foam brush and the small
bottle,because it goes a long way

 

Yep it was, I didn't see the HAMB sticker on your window when I was talking to you.

 

after reading this article, i started mine last night and finished them when I got up this morning. Krylon Fusion in white, and a little bit of tire cleaning and they turned out BAD ***. That means I'll never buy a set of white walls again. Thanks for the info on doing this...I've been lamenting over buying a new set of white walls to replace relatively new tires just because I wanted white walls on this truck. I love the HAMB!

 

is it possible to prep the tire with a chemical solvant? or do you have to sand the tire first?
if your having trouble finding the fusion paint in you neck of the woods, just google it and use the froogle option
http://paint-and-supplies.hardwarestore.com/49-266-plastic-spray-paint/krylon-fusion-dover-white-paint-103216.aspx
that was the first hit I got 4.99

 

This kicks %#$ ! I will def. use this trick! I may try it tomorrow! Have the paint already!!!!

 

I've heard to use a thin coat. White walls discolor from the oils in the rubber being forced out by the air in the tire. Oxygen molecules can permeate through the rubber that's why people starting using nitrogen.