Today primed the canard. We spent most of last weekend getting the EIS wiring up to snuff, but it’s not very photogenic. This week was sand and fill (and grinding off some canard-tip layups I did a *long* time ago before I knew better-they were as thick as battleship armor). So, today was the day, […]
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Today we built a “tilting frame” for the wing so we can paint basically on 45 degree inclines instead of directly up and down. It’s basically an A frame with a tie-off point so we can stop the rotation. We also put a 1″x3″ in the aileron well and rested it on a sawhorse. We […]
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Our top coat is Nason 2k Ful-thane, the factory recommended paint, in “snow white”. Here are a couple of shots of the copilot aileron curing. Jerry is starting to get a feel for it now. By the time we get to paining his plane it should be old hat. Painted Aileron (copilot) note the reflections, […]
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I need to flesh this out a bit, but if you’re going to paint you need more than a booth. You’re going to want a paint shaker and some decent large and small liquid measures, preferably glass and metal so you can clean them well. You’ll need good personal protective gear, at least VOC rated […]
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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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