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Originally Posted by
MarkXT
Does acf 50 help clean the spokes or will it just stop corrosion?
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No it doesn't. It will just protect them. In fact, after being coated, the sticky ACF will soon pick up road grime and actually look worse! However, you can rest assured that underneath everything will by tickety-boo.
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Originally Posted by
MarkXT
Doesn't look like mine have ever been cleaned
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Not necessarily a bad thing. Most people end up with tatty-looking rusty zinc-plated spokes because they try and polish them and are over zealous with their cleaning regime. If you try and polish them, all you'll end up doing is removing the protective zinc plate, exposing the steel to oxidation and they go rusty quicker than left alone! Just wash them off if you must clean them. Never use anything abrasive (Autosol etc.) and avoid using anything acid (which a lot of car wheel cleaners are).
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Originally Posted by
greatescape
...the more I cleaned them the worse they became.
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...a case in point!
I have never cleaned my spokes in eight years, just washed and recoated them with ACF-50 every once in a while and they ain't too bad at all.