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I have seen wheels slid onto a long pipe for painting. Then as the wheels are painted (both sides), you turn the wheels by only touching the place where the tires go. It looks like it would work well. I have 2 sets of 21" wheels that were powdercoated, but I am going to paint the next set. I plan to paint my wheel using the pipe method, even though our local club as a wheel rotator. The main problem with a rotator, like our club has in the tool loan program, is it only does one wheel at a time. With a long pipe, after painting a wheel, you can drag the painted wheel off to the side with a hook and paint more wheels on the pipe. The problem with powdercoating is most wheels have dings and flaws that need "filling". Supposedly J-B Weld is good to 500 to 600 degrees, but some of the J-B Weld sagged when the powdercoated wheels were baked, even though I told the powdercoater to cure them at the lowest possible temperature.
Rusty Nelson