ACF-50 and wheels?

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Having spent way too long breaking my knuckles while cleaning the wheels of my 1100 with solvol, I'm quite keen to not have to do it again any time soon.

My mate picked me up a can of ACF-50 from the show yesterday and I'm thinking of using it on the wheel rims. Obviously I can't spray it (wouldn't do much for the brakes or tyres), so I'm intending to spray some on a rag and wipe it on (or possibly spray some into a small pot and use a brush?).

Anyone tried this and if so is it worth it?

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M
 
i spray little dabs on, then work it round with compressed air/a brush.

make sure you don't get too much down the spoke holes as it runs through and lubes the tyre ;)
 
I always spray into a pot and apply with a brush, much easier :thumb2

Be careful though as ACF really 'creeps' ie a day later you'll find it miles away (ish) from where you applied it. For that reason I'm not sure I'd use it on wheels where it's gonna get onto tyres and pos brakes :nenau

If you really want to coat your rims with something then I'd use something much thicker like a 'wax' chain lube or similar.

Andres
 
cookie said:
i spray little dabs on, then work it round with compressed air
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Ooh, that's a good idea :thumb2

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Andres
 
Thanks guys :thumb2

Hmm, what to do?....
I don't fancy ACF lubed tyres - just how far does this stuff creep? (I'm an ACF-50 virgin).
 
i have had it creep in spidery trails onto the front tyre once (that's how i know :)).

i just wiped it off with a paper towel and forgot about it. it's nice to get some into the recesses where the spokes go though, as that's a common corrosion point.

TBH in the past, pre discovering ACF50, i just wiped LM type grease around the rims and spokes with my fingers. doesn't run, and doesn't thin out on rims like acf does.

i just left the first lot on for 18 months, with no corrosion at all on removal. i'll probably go back to grease for that area, i think.
 
I use ACF on my wheels. Before the winter starts I take off the calipers and then ACF wheel, forks, swinarm etc with a paint brush. I then clean up the calipers with brake cleaner (ludicriously expensive btw) and give the discs a good spray too incase any ACF has got on them.
It doesn't actually take that long and if you have a garage equiped with Radio 4, heater and beer its rather pleasant time.
Even when if the pads are good enough to go back in the brakes usually feel a bit firmer after a good clean up of all the crude in the caliper pistons.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys - I think I'll give it a (careful) go. If you're in Warrington and hear the sound of an 1100 scraping down the road, then I overdid it :D

On the subject of ACF-50 - I take it that can it safely be used on engine casings and electrics etc? I'm intending to give the bike a pretty good going over (even to the point of breaking electrical connections, spraying and reconnecting)....
 
MattW said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys - I think I'll give it a (careful) go. If you're in Warrington and hear the sound of an 1100 scraping down the road, then I overdid it :D

On the subject of ACF-50 - I take it that can it safely be used on engine casings and electrics etc? I'm intending to give the bike a pretty good going over (even to the point of breaking electrical connections, spraying and reconnecting)....
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ISTR is safe of plastics, metal, and everything. I certainly spray it on everything
 
ACF Grease

Don't know if this helps but ACF Corrosion block now comes in a grease which, to quote from the tube, "Won't soften, Breakdown, or Wash Out". Haven't tried it myself yet but will be spreading it on this weekend.
 
you do realise that applying ACF to the wheel rims will mean that they will be absolutely filthy in very short order... ACF is an anti corrosion formula - and I'm not aware of the rims on the GS being particularly prone to rust. Nor am I sure that covering them with what is in effect a magnet for muck is any better than simply letting them get filthy over the winter au naturel.
 
tony.nottm said:
you do realise that applying ACF to the wheel rims will mean that they will be absolutely filthy in very short order... ACF is an anti corrosion formula - and I'm not aware of the rims on the GS being particularly prone to rust. Nor am I sure that covering them with what is in effect a magnet for muck is any better than simply letting them get filthy over the winter au naturel.
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I do realise that it'll look far from pretty in fairly short order, but with 1100 rims being raw un-anodised aluminium (or at least early 1100 rims), they corrode pretty damn quickly - white spots all over them just after a plain water wash, let alone a winter road salt bath.

The previous owner of my bike took good care of it and kept the wheels looking good (others I viewed while looking for mine had wheels ranging from 'airhead engine casing' to 'crumbling away'). I'd like to keep it looking good, but as I discovered last weekend, BM cross spoke wheels are an absolute sod to clean up and polish and I want something that'll get me through the winter without more tedious solvol autosol time ;)
 
tony.nottm said:
you do realise that applying ACF to the wheel rims will mean that they will be absolutely filthy in very short order... ACF is an anti corrosion formula - and I'm not aware of the rims on the GS being particularly prone to rust. Nor am I sure that covering them with what is in effect a magnet for muck is any better than simply letting them get filthy over the winter au naturel.
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true but me spoke are corroded
 
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