Rusting and painting steel rims – with weight?

Moin an alle 🙂 Recently I am proud owner of a Mondeo MK3. Now is also the colder season and I would like to raise the winter tires, which are mounted on steel rims. Unfortunately, the really don’t look so great anymore and I have planned to paint them. In addition, I have already looked at some things to paint the steel rims and read through. The steel rims have weights inside as well as outside and before I can do this also a few Questions on.. Should I take off the weights first, what (so I think) is more obvious? These are all clamped weights.. how do I get them off (just like the rim is now)? After that I can clamp them again or do you have to take new weights? I posted a few pictures once.. Greetings Andy