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Steering wheels gone bad

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scott

07-24-2001 08:25:16




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I was wondering what everyone does when the steering wheel on their antique tractors start cracking and leaving black marks on you hands. Is there a good way to clean them and bring them back to life? We just bought an old case at an auction and the guy selling it wrapped the steering wheel with black electrical tape which looks nice but I have a feeling it's going to get messy after a couple days in the sun.

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Tom

07-24-2001 17:38:28




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 Re: Steering wheels gone bad in reply to scott, 07-24-2001 08:25:16  
There are places that will rebuild a steering wheel for you. Look around on this site or on the net, I don't know of one off hand. They take off the old plastic and put on new. My brother had one done for a WC and it is like new.



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rem

08-05-2001 09:36:03




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 Re: Re: Steering wheels gone bad in reply to Tom, 07-24-2001 17:38:28  
Hi,
I just finished my first restoration of a cracked, broken, ugly steering wheel. Placed some bondo in the cracks, and depressions in the wheel, and then sanded with a 3/4" dia. sanding spool running from the end of an electric drill. Did some final hand sanding and painted with an expensive flat black paint and presto!!
Time will tell. It is not show quality, but feels and looks good. I'll take make time on the next one and try to get a show quality that one would get with a new 65 bucker from the antique catalogs

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Dean

07-24-2001 09:49:51




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 Re: Steering wheels gone bad in reply to scott, 07-24-2001 08:25:16  
Here's what I did. I cleaned up all the cracks with alcohol. Then I used JB Weld to fill in all the cracks keeping the excess epoxy to a minimum as you have to sand it off. I used a popsicle stick to level the epoxy with the surface. Next I used fine sandpaper, then a Scotchbrite pad over the entire wheel to give it some "bite". Last step was to paint the entire wheel carefully with a high-quality brush and black, acrylic, outdoor enamel paint from the hardware store. The tiny can is plenty. This was the first time I had done this and it turned out so good you can't tell the wheel from new.

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