Judging from the replies from the list, it would appear that opinion is
divided. About half the list preferred the original brushed aluminum wheel
rings, with the other half liking the polished stainless units.
I guess I will see if I can do a decent job on the originals and if not
snuffle around and look at somebody's car with the shiny new ones. Memory
says that Patrick in Montreal has the new rings so I will beg an audience
with his car and check out the difference.
The thing that looks different is I gained the impression from various web
images that the new shiny rings are rounder in cross-section than the
originals. My aluminim rings are basically a flat inclined band around the
wheel meeting another flat disc on the outside of the rim. The meeting point
is almost a shart edge. The shiny rings (could be a camera effect) appear to
have a very much rounder joining line and/or the band is itself narrower in
the flat section. Does anybody have one of each to compare?
If the above is actually the case, then I will stick with the original as I
prefer the flatter look. Perhaps I can polish the originals?
Anyway the only sort of work I can contemplate when it's freezing outside
and been snowing all day.
Mark Hooper
72 TR6
-----Original Message-----
From: oliver [mailto:oliver@connect.net]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:28 PM
To: Mark Hooper
Subject: Re: TR6 trim rings
my six looks great with the stainless rings. but the wheels are the correct
painted silver, not, uh, gold???
http://home.connect.net/oliver/tr6.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Vidaurre Ch. [mailto:vidaurre@rocketmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:20 PM
To: M. Secrest
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR6 trim rings
Hello all,
M. Secrest (?) wrote:
"...the PO of my '6 had installed the present-day
polished rings, but I felt that they made the car just
too shiny, overall. So I located some decent
originals, and I think the car looks better for it,"
I would hand sand the polished stainless steel,
respecting the circular form, with some fine emery
cloth.
My father used to sand aluminum sheet with one of
those electric hand sanders that use 1/2 sheet of sand
paper. It gave what he called a jitterbug finish
since these tools move in an "orbital fashion" (not
circular rotation). At Otis elevator where I work
they do a lot of stainless steel fabrication. They
have a large table belt sander, that can handle 8 foot
sheets, to give a brushed finish to all flat surfaces
that are seen.
Cheers, Javier
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