Original Posted By: Jim Boyer
I think you will be able to see our piet,we have the tail feathers painted. Bob________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:04:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Original Posted By: Jim Boyer
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Original Posted By: "TOM STINEMETZE"
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Painted the 6 Big Piets with the Stewart System. IMOP, it is regular polypaint. It has the paint, hardener and thinner. The thinner is water andevaporates away leaving a very tough 2 part paint. I painted about 4 nightsper week for 6 months getting all 6 planes painted. Trying to get 5 of the 6ready for Brodhead and Osh. we did not have the luxury of waiting for aperfect day to paint. I painted anyway, no matter what. You could only paint4 coats at a time before drying, so it took 4 sesseions (afternoons) foreach wing, fuselage, tail feathers, metal, struts, etc, etc, etc, etc. Thetemp and humidity varied from 20 degrees to 90 degrees in that time frameand humidity was from 100% to about 50%. On the cold days, we ran heat forabout 45 min and heated the booth to over 100 degrees to try to heat thewing up. Still if the wing was too cold, the water would condense and runoff the wing in puddles. Bottom line is this...The covering system is great and I will never use aMEK based system again. The waterborne paint is great if you have perfectconditions, but after the auto industry gets the paint perfected formillions of cars, we will benefit with airplane painting. By painting justone plane, maybe you will have several months to wait around for a coupleof perfect days. If you weigh the paint as you mix and follow theinstructions to the letter, you will have the toughest paint I have everseen. Be sure to wear a good charcoal filter mask and change the pre-filter every4 days of painting. Throw the mask away after a couple of months (or soonerif you had a bad cold) and buy a new one. Mold and gunk grow on the insidewhere you breathe. These are available thru any auto paint store for around$20. Can't be too safe as polyurethane paint will kill you.BarryNX973BPps: waterborne not waterbased _____
Painted the 6 Big Piets with the Stewart System. IMOP, it is regular polypaint. It has the paint, hardener and thinner. The thinner is water andevaporates away leaving a very tough 2 part paint. I painted about 4 nightsper week for 6 months getting all 6 planes painted. Trying to get 5 of the 6ready for Brodhead and Osh. we did not have the luxury of waiting for aperfect day to paint. I painted anyway, no matter what. You could only paint4 coats at a time before drying, so it took 4 sesseions (afternoons) foreach wing, fuselage, tail feathers, metal, struts, etc, etc, etc, etc. Thetemp and humidity varied from 20 degrees to 90 degrees in that time frameand humidity was from 100% to about 50%. On the cold days, we ran heat forabout 45 min and heated the booth to over 100 degrees to try to heat thewing up. Still if the wing was too cold, the water would condense and runoff the wing in puddles. Bottom line is this...The covering system is great and I will never use aMEK based system again. The waterborne paint is great if you have perfectconditions, but after the auto industry gets the paint perfected formillions of cars, we will benefit with airplane painting. By painting justone plane, maybe you will have several months to wait around for a coupleof perfect days. If you weigh the paint as you mix and follow theinstructions to the letter, you will have the toughest paint I have everseen. Be sure to wear a good charcoal filter mask and change the pre-filter every4 days of painting. Throw the mask away after a couple of months (or soonerif you had a bad cold) and buy a new one. Mold and gunk grow on the insidewhere you breathe. These are available thru any auto paint store for around$20. Can't be too safe as polyurethane paint will kill you.BarryNX973BPps: waterborne not waterbased _____