Ducati Monster Forum

So I am definitely going to need a new front rim and the rear one has the a small strip of paint around the rim below the where it meets the tire that could use covering up.

So anyways, I want to get a new rim and find it unlikely I will find the white ones and I want the white ones, they are the whole reason I made a 1000 mile round trip to get the bike.   So if I find a front marchesini five spoke or a pair of marchesini 10 spokes in any color at decent price, can I just have them powder coated and mounted and problem solved?

the coater will want to work over bare aluminum.

That will require blasting.

Bearings should come out and will need re-installing.

Then you can just have them coated.  ;)

Am I to assume that the costs will far out weigh the benefits and just wait for white?  I can't ride for a bit anyways and will probably just wait till next year to hop back on the saddle.  and spend the rest of summer and all winter fixing and waiting for the bits and pieces. 

I had my wheels coated last winter, and all of the shops I talked to offered prep services.  The guy I gave the job to complained that he didn't like to sandblast aluminum, so he had them dipped instead.  He claimed it was too easy to damage while blasting.

It is, but it depends on what medium you are using to blast. Ive taken chunks of a cast alluminum clutch cover once. That was using silica.

I am actually thinking about stripping hte paint of my rim as well since there are already large chips and paint missing from rocks  etc. I was however, thinking of using aircraft grade paint stripper instead of blasting. I can do that at home instead of having to bring it and sneak it in to my brothers workplace just to do it.

i want to powder coat my 999 wheels. is it an expensive process?

I did my 3 spokes for $80 bucks. I had to take my bearings out and they blasted them. I'd reccoment it to anybody just for the durability factor cause the wheels take quite a good beating.

The same place also told me it was going to be $250 for my frame/swingarm/hoop/triples and I already had everything blasted for them and it ended up being $50 cause I saved them so much time.

Having participated in and seen the powdercoating process firsthand, I can tell you the bulk of the price comes from the prep work. I did my aluminum side panels over the winter and it took me about 20 minutes to blast them and only like 3 minutes tp coat them - that's counting cleaning and loading, shooting and re-cleaning the gun and loading them in the oven. Majority of the price is labor.

However - I would consider sodablasting wheels cause silica sugars aluminum pretty easy and will pit it really deep if you don't know what you're doing.