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I spent some quality time with my kelsey wheels tonight. 1st with a broken pickle jar for a scraper. Then soda blasted the spokes. After that the sand paper. The one on the left has the spokes sanded. The one on the right is soda blasted. Broken plate glass works better for scraping but the wife said we needed all the windows in the house. Dont forget the leather gloves if you try this at home!

Almost forgot to show what they looked like before

Goodness. What a huge difference.

Looking good

I hope you ate all the pickles before you broke the jar
Looks good, painting black or au natural ?

BLACK!
Now to figure out what shade of black.

Ummm, black maybe

Black is beautiful !!

I would go with the extra super dark black, black. None of that "imitation black"

Dave, have you the formula for that black? If you go to an auto paint supplier, you will find there are numerous blacks, and then there are metallic blacks too. It just goes to show all blacks are nor the same.

Allan from down under.

Black is black and any deviation from this is not black Black should be purchased as packaged goods,right off the shelf. If your paint supplier has to mix the paint to a formula you are not getting black paint but a variation of black which is not a true black. Cheers pete

Thanks for the chart Steve! I think the 1923 " really really black" is what I will go with.

Good choice Dallas

As a former body/paint guy, I know black is a little different from one to another in modern times. Rustoleum for one doesn't match the hood where I painted the radiator shell...looks a little grey to me. Matching auto colors is an art. Generally black is black, unless two panels are side by side.
You would not think so, but white is one of the hardest colors to match, right up there with silver.

Love the paint chip chart, Steve

Way back in my day, we used 1923's really really black to clean out any red paint used in the Graco (Minnesota built!) 30-1 pumps and high pressure lines that fed paint to the guns in the booth at work. 125 psi at the line, 3500 plus psi at the gun.
That 1923 really really black is awfully close to the spoke color that was left OFF of the wheels on the 18 that lives here.
After 30-40 years they're gorgeous, semi-dark, warm natural spokes.
Oops. Wrong forum for some of that.
True for the tech info hidden beneath 'tho, IF you can swallow it.
Dallas, would you show us before and after pics when you have it done?
Thanks.

1st coat of paint on.
Hubs are primed and ready for paint. New race and bearings are here. Back ordered one dust seal.

The 1923 Really, Really Black looks nice.

So many people go with the 1924 Henry's favorite. I think they're just trying to show off.

I agree Dave. That original paint was tuff. I could tell which was the top and bottom when it was put on. The bottom was real thick and hard to blast off but the top was much easier. About one pass on the top and it was gone.