I've got a couple of quick (and possibly horrifying to some forum members) way of getting the job done. Then again, I've always valued results, not subtlety:
1. Bring the wheels to work and use the parts cleaner.
2. Steal a little kerosene from the shop heater, soak a rag and wipe it down.
3. If all else fails, a rotary wire brush (SOFT!) on a power drill will take down anything.
That red glue on the right rim has always been fodder for the rotary wire brush.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)