Campagnolo Magnesium wheels - Can anyone help?
I have 2 sets of original Campagnolos magnesium wheels;
GTA1600 6Jx14 and GTAm style 6Jx13.
When I bought the 6x14 set I tried to restore them.My wheels' restorer said that he will put them in the ''oven'' for an ''electrostatic spraying''. I told him that as I have heard you cannot paint magnesium but you can only ''clean'' it with chemicals - or I don't know what. He insisted on painting them and as you can see he failed because when he sprayed them, they started ''spitting'' any colour he sprayed on (he must applied 7 or 8 coats) and their surface became full of bubbles.
Does anyone know what you can do with magnesium?
Where are you ''Borrani'' or anyone else, any ideas?
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