{"id":6578,"date":"2012-12-10T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T08:48:27","slug":"plastidip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/10\/plastidip\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastidip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>One of the things I visually really didn’t like on my FR-S were the rims. The five paired shiney spokes just didn’t do it for me. A pretty popular thing to do that I’d seen someone at McB do to his tC was to paint the rims with Plastidip. Plastidip is a synthetic rubber coating, possibly known more from olden times as tool handle dip. It’s also in an aerosol form as used here. The only bummer is you can only find black, red, sometimes blue, and maybe clear locally. Too bad because they have a bunch of other colors, including disco neons, camo tones, metalics, and pearlizer finish. Anyway, the beauty of this stuff is that it is non-permanent. Get tired of it, you can peel it of. As a consequence, it’ll eventually peel on its own. We shall see how long it lasts. I only did two major coats on the front side, more is recommended.<\/p>\n

Only prep I did was to clean the rims well with Simple Green, and then high percentage Isoprpyl alcohol. I masked off the lug holes and the valve stem. I tried to mask the tire, but the tape refused to stick to the tire dressing saturated rubber. Others have not bothered, and it was not a problem. The overspray just peels off like sunburned skin.<\/p>\n

So what do you think? I like it. Despite everyone calling me racer boy. I guess I should get an overall picture later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I visually really didn’t like on my FR-S were the rims. The five paired shiney spokes just didn’t do it for me. A pretty popular thing to do that I’d seen someone at McB do to his tC was to paint the rims with Plastidip. Plastidip is a synthetic rubber coating, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1I6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}