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Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️

The coaster wheel project is complete (for now)!

The wheel is out of the vinegar and got another good scrub with soap and water before getting dried and oiled a little bit.

Any rust that's visible is flash rust- which formed after treatment while it was still a little wet with water. Pretty hard to avoid any rust.

I'm super, duper, incredibly happy with how it turned out. Even the rust on the grease port has been cleared. Most of the iron oxide (the black dust) was removed in the vinegar soak and with a soapy scrub.

The very last thing I plan to do is to give it a little bit of a polish. But here it is, all cleaned up!

I do wish the smooth coating was more intact but this is the wheel I have to work with unless someone at Holiday World reads this and wants to send me a new one! ;)

If I ever get around to trying to polish this thing up I will definitely share pics of it. Until then, that's it for this restoration. It was a lot of fun and I'm super happy with it. Thanks for coming along with me!I do wish the smooth coating was more intact but this is the wheel I have to work with unless someone at Holiday World reads this and wants to send me a new one! ;)

If I ever get around to trying to polish this thing up I will definitely share pics of it. Until then, that's it for this restoration. It was a lot of fun and I'm super happy with it. Thanks for coming along with me!

#RollerCoasters #HolidayWorld #Restoration

A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is taken from above showing the hub of the wheel.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is a closeup of the slot where the axel goes, showing the grease port on the inside.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is close up on the outside grease port.
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Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️

Here's the wheel this morning after an overnight in the tank. It got a scrub with the kitchen brush, dried up, and oiled a little. It's still going to go back in the tank later, but damn, I'm happy with the progress.

You can see some of the smooth coating (teflon?) on the road surface of the wheel is still intact. This is why I didn't want to sandblast or brush it. I wanted to preserve as much of that as possible.

#RollerCoasters #HolidayWorld #ThemeParks

An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
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