Wheels
Rim & Wheel Blasting in Belleville
Paint, powder coat and rust hide pits, bends and cracks in a wheel. Belleville Blasting Co. strips steel and alloy rims, trailer wheels and loose wheel parts back to a surface that can be inspected and coated, for customers in Belleville and the surrounding area.
What comes off a wheel
A rim collects layers: factory paint, a later powder coat, brake dust baked into the barrel, and rust on the steel underneath. Blasting takes those layers off together, including the coating inside the drop centre where a wire brush cannot reach. We blast steel wheels, alloy wheels, trailer wheels and the loose rings and centres from a split rim.
The point of the strip is to see the wheel. Curb rash, a previous repair and rust pits only show once the film is gone. If a crack or a thin spot shows up, you can decide whether the wheel is worth coating. Shop photos of stripped rims are in the project gallery. Bring the loose wheels to 25 Dundas St W. A wheel still bolted on puts the well, the brakes and the studs in the blast.
Steel and alloy are not the same job
Steel wheels tolerate a more direct blast. Rust in the gutter and around the valve hole is the usual reason they come in. Once the scale is gone you can see if the rim is worth coating or if the metal is too thin to put back on the road. Scale between the rim and where the tyre sat is common, and blasting is how that packed rust comes out.
Alloy wheels are softer. A hard, close blast can pit the face or cut the edge of a spoke. On alloy we ease the media and the distance off the wheel, the same way we treat other aluminium. If a previous blast has already chewed the face, the photos usually show it. Chrome and a polished lip come off too, corrosion and all, but blasting will not leave a mirror. Polishing after that is a machinist's job. We leave the metal clean.
Trailer wheels
Trailer wheels sit in salt, water and tall grass. The rust often starts out of sight, between the rim and the tyre. We blast them bare so a coating can reach that steel. Spares and implement wheels are the same process. Tyres can stay on if you only need the outside face, and they should come off if the barrel and the bead seat need to be clean. Say which you want when you send photos.
Studs, hubs and small brackets can come with the wheels. A whole trailer frame is a different job, on the trailer and equipment page, and it can be blasted in the shop or on site if the trailer should not move.
Ready for paint or powder
Bare steel flash rusts if it sits. After blasting we can prime the wheel so it holds until it is painted or powder coated. We apply liquid primers and topcoats in the shop. We do not run a powder-coat oven. If the plan is a new powder coat, we strip the old coating and leave a clean wheel your coater can profile to their spec. Tell us who is coating it so we do not prime a wheel they would have to strip again.
Failed powder, including a coat chipped at the spoke edges, comes off the same way. Frames, railings and patio furniture are on the powder coating removal page. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm. Photos of the face, the barrel and any crack or curb rash are what we need, plus steel or alloy, whether the tyres are on, and whether you want the wheels primed here or only stripped. Call (343) 600-0391 or use the instant estimate.