A couple of nice shiny wheels.

These are the wheels I built for the TX650. Rims were in a pretty bad state, scratched, and gouged by screwdrivers, hammers, chisels, whatever the the PO could find, except apparently for tyre levers. Hubs weren't too bad, just a lot of oxidisation. Spokes were all rusted, some all the way through.
The rims had the edge ground down to remove most of the gouges and dents, same with the outer walls, then polished using a nylon fibre wheel, followed by polishing mops and rouge.
Hubs were mounted on the lathe, rear hub had the casting bridges between fins removed and the flanges trued before polishing. Front hub had the two big bridges between flanges lowered so I could get in to the centre of the hub to polish. Flanges were trued up and polished. I also polished the brake shoe backing plate and drilled some lightning holes in the disk.
Stainless spokes for the front wheel arrived so I laced the wheel only to find, the spokes were the right length, so no spoke sticking out from the nipple, but the thread was 3mm too long, so the excess thread was visible on the inside of the rim. Fortunately, the local supplier only had spokes for the front wheel, so, I ordered spokes for the rear wheel from the Netherlands. They arrived and I laced the rear wheel, spoke thread length was perfect.
The original axle spacers were pretty horrid looking, so I turned up some stainless spacers, and some aluminium dust covers and pressed them together.
The front wheel can be fitted with two disks, but as I was only using the one, I made a cover plate for the mounts to replace the original rusted coverplate on the left side and fixed it with polished allen heads. The 74 TX650 came with just a single disk from the factory, later models had two.
The caliper pistons were badly rusted, but strangely the calipers themselves weren't? So I send off for new seals and some stainless pistons. Calliper bodies had casting flashes and rough casting ground smooth and were then painted with two pack.

 

@toglhot, nice job, the parts all came out really pretty. But oh my goodness, you do love your polishing wheels! I do not have that sort of patience.

 

Man that is impressive and beautiful work!

 

Looks great, I love it!