We painted in the winter, so good heating was essential. The new massive construction heater is working out great, allowing us to get the temperature of the booth well into the 80s without even running it on high. Tomorrow we’ll try to get another couple of coats on and get them cooked out New torpedo […]
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We’ve put the booth up. Yup, that’s it. Well, we did finish up the fans and some masking off of the airplane, too. Paintbooth Paintbooth Paint Air Dryer Inlet air fan Extension cord and air hose access holes For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut […]
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Well, we’ve finally got a functioning paint booth up and running at the house. We were going to paint at Jerry’s, but it was just a bit too cramped for the 10’x20’x9’6″ booth that we’d envisioned. In fact, getting it in my garage, and getting the heat back up and running was a bit of […]
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Painting has begun in earnest. Here’s a shot or two from building the paintbooth in the garage, and the first shots of us spraying the Nason 2k primer. Jerry was good enough to bring the copilot wing (repaired) and the canard over to our place where we had more room to erect the booth. Building Paint Booth […]
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Before first flight, everything that’s bare glass should get a good coat of UV-resistant primer, so here we’re priming our cooling plenum, sparrow strainer, bolt hole covers, nose gear fork fairing, and other small odds and ends. Priming Parts Priming Pitot Mount Priming the Nose NACA Scoop Primed Plenum Elevator Torque Tube Primed
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