Don't assume you can find a hangar. In North Texas/Southern Oklahoma some airports have rules about what you can store there, but (I think) many end up as cheap boat and junk storage. When I bought...
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Don't assume you can find a hangar. In North Texas/Southern Oklahoma some airports have rules about what you can store there, but (I think) many end up as cheap boat and junk storage. When I bought...
If I painted over the old paint I would still have the adhesion problems between the old paint and the aluminum. I have had pretty good luck with Imron myself on my jetboat which has had a tough life...
When in doubt - TEST
In ASA's Airframe Volume 1: Structures, by Dale Crane (which I believe anyone working on their own airplane should read - big help to me anyway), on page 212: ".. apply a...
This one was stripped and painted at a shop in Alabama in 2003. There are chipped areas all over the place and the white paint is faded. I bought it in 2008 and the paint was trashed then (I keep it...
Some strippers: (will five gallons do a Cherokee 140 with only one very thin paint job?)
EFS-2500 by Molecular-Tech Coatings in Canada and distributed here by Graco - in stock. It runs about $280...
Thanks Pearson - I think the plastic drops cloth will depend on which stripper you use? Most of my information was gleaned from various paint shop sites, all who say they use newer EPA friendly...
Actually the strippers found in retail stores are not ideal for large projects like this. PPG has a product called Eldorado PR-2002, and there are many others, but I can't find anyone who will sell...
Thanks - I updated the post - in blue - moving the epoxy primer to be applied first to the entire plane and then a sandable primer over that (per Sherwin-Williams) in areas that need it. I have some...
Thanks - That's why I posted the checklist. I found the fill primer note on a painter's website. They used high solids sandable primer in areas needing work such as hail dents and followed it up...
I assembled this checklist from a lot of different sources, and interviews, after I could not find anything online here that covers it. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.
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