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What is the best method of removing chrome form a set of nylon wheels - easy off oven cleaner, brake fluid ????

Thanks
Craig

Easy off should be able to do it lickety split

THANKS !!!!

Better yet, Mr. Clean the yellow soap stuff does the same. Not as caustic either....

I used both brake fluid and Easy-Off to remove both paint and chrome from wheels. I will say that neither did the job "lickety split"! Haha

With the Turbo Optima wheels (both painted and chromed versions), areas in the little depressions that imitate lug nuts were very pesky and required a few nights of soaking followed by scraping with an X-Acto knife. But, I'd suggest Easy-Off works better than brake fluid.

Acetone...cheap and efficient

Castrol Super Clean. Soak for 24 hours and it should fall off.

Ed

I didn't have much luck with acetone on some satin traxxas wheels.

the easy off oven cleaner yellow did the trick, so I guess the plating was aluminum. give that a try.

uzzi wrote:Acetone...cheap and efficient

X2.... Acetone worked like a charm for me. Stripped a set of original jellybeans (rear)

Just make sure the wheels are nylon and not any part plastic--acetone will turn plastic into goosh. I tried acetone to remove some paint from an already broken Marui Galaxy wheel just to see what happened. Within seconds, the paint was stripped clean. 5 more seconds and the wheel was turning to goosh.

Easy-Off is safer if you have any doubts.

I've never removed plating from rims but I've removed paint using brake fluid and it worked ok.

Heres a thread that might be useful to you as well: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=17019

Vinegar works too.