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Anyone have experience painting wire spoke wheels? Did you use a small spray gun or a large gun and fog the paint on? I've heard some guys spin the wheel while applying paint. I know about powder coating but I need body color Henbury green and not sure I can get an exact match. Thanks for any help.

This is how I did mine. I rotated the wheel in order to always have the gun in the same position.

When I painted my wire wheels I used a professional (Binks) spray gun and I had the spray pattern adjusted to a small fan so that I could get behind the spokes, inside of the hubs and etc. I also put the paint on wet so that it would have good flow and also have a good shine when dry. But, you have to be careful when applying the paint wet to avoid runs and sags.

When I painted Barkers wheels on his Landeau, I used the same gun I used to paint the rest of the car. I have a 3M PPS gun, mfr'd by Graco but I can't remember the model number. I used a wide spray pattern to paint the overall on the front, but from the rear I think I adjusted the pattern to a real narrow fan to direct it onto the backside of the spokes. But then I adjusted it back out to my wider fan pattern to cover the overall. I chose to paint them with single-stage because the binders are a lot tackier than BC/CC.

Thanks guys.