Latex Paint for Your Homebuilt

[Sam Buchanan]

Sam,
Sorry I was not clear, when I stated "YOU" I was referring not to you as a person specificly, but as a component of a dialogue of information. If that makes any sense. It was never intended as a personal attack. You did however bring up what is my biggest gripe with the thought process going on here reguarding something like this. Simply put your past experience is meaningless for future decisions unless you can assure the material you are using has not changed. If you find fault with the previous logic, I would like to know how.


P.S. I do use "latex" paint quite a bit, on everything from my house, to equipment, to model aircraft. So I have nothing against the material technology at all.

I don't want to belabor this point, but in the case of using latex paints for low-n-slow airplanes, I think the logic you referred to is indeed faulty. I understand the point you are trying to make but I don't think it is reason to abandon latex paint in the real world.

I agree that formulations may change over time as paint manufacturers improve their product. But regardless of the changes, latex paint in general continues to work very well for this application, probably even better than in years past (adhesion and UV protection). The changes made over the years have not turned it into something that no longer works in our application.

As long as latex paint continues to be "latex paint" with characteristics we recognize based on previous experience, I think it is a good option for our experimental aircraft.