Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:12:58 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m02.mx.aol.com ([64.12.136.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b4) with ESMTP id 2146910 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:01:22 -0400 Received: from JIMRHER@aol.com by imo-m02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.22.) id q.1d4.8469b7c (1320) for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:01:16 -0400 (EDT) From: JIMRHER@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <1d4.8469b7c.2bda1b1c@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:01:16 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] when to paint? X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_1d4.8469b7c.2bda1b1c_boundary" X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10634 --part1_1d4.8469b7c.2bda1b1c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Posted for "Curtis Wray" : Jim, I have seen your aircraft at Oshkosh and Reno and admired it with envy. Could you share some of the paint details? For example, which primer system did you use, top coat, etc. I am particularly interested in the "pearl" white base coat, it is beautiful. BTW, I spoke with you at Oshkosh and greatly appreciate the time you took to answer my questions. Curtis Wray IVPT Thanks Curtis for all your kind words. My paint was a very high end paint job and I'm still very proud to have it. Tom Conner painted it in Bend, OR. and it was the 30 Th. Lancair he has painted. He tried his hardest to talk me out of the Pearl White paint since he knows that he would have to touch it up sometime in the future. It is impossible to touch it up without seeing the evidence, However, I haven't had to do that yet. After 170 plus hours it still looks like new. Next week I hope to see him and have some very minor touch up done on the prop tips. The second color is the color change paint also form BASF called Extreme and it is easy to touch up. The paint process is long, but the brief of it is, after making the airplane "Paint Ready" Tom sprayed the airplane 15 coats. Sanding most off. Different primers with different grit sanding, sealers, base coats (3 colors), 3 clear coats, with at least one of those color sanded and buffed so no orange peel was left. Still I am amazed that the carbon fabric is starting to show in several places. I'm convinced you cannot stop that. Hope to see you again this year in OSH. Jim Hergert N6XE, "An Sex Y" L4P --part1_1d4.8469b7c.2bda1b1c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Posted for "Curtis Wray" <Curtis.Wray@dynetics.com&= gt;:

Jim,

I have seen your aircraft at Oshkosh and Reno and admired it with envy.
Could you share some of the paint details? For example, which primer system<= BR> did you use, top coat, etc. I am particularly interested in the "pearl"
white base coat, it is beautiful. BTW, I spoke with you at Oshkosh and
greatly appreciate the time you took to answer my questions.

Curtis Wray
IVPT

Thanks Curt= is for all your kind words.
My paint was a very high end paint job and I'm still very proud to have it.=20= Tom Conner painted it in Bend, OR. and it was the 30 Th. Lancair he has pain= ted. He tried his hardest to talk me out of the Pearl White paint since he k= nows that he would have to touch it up sometime in the future. It is impossi= ble to touch it up without seeing the evidence, However, I haven't had to do= that yet. After 170 plus hours it still looks like new. Next week I hope to= see him and have some very minor touch up done on the prop tips. The second= color is the color change paint also form BASF called Extreme and it is eas= y to touch up.
The paint process is long, but the brief of it is, after making the airplane= "Paint Ready" Tom sprayed the airplane 15 coats. Sanding most off. Differen= t primers with different grit sanding, sealers, base coats (3 colors), 3 cle= ar coats, with at least one of those color sanded and buffed so no orange pe= el was left. Still I am amazed that the carbon fabric is starting to show in= several places. I'm convinced you cannot stop that.

Hope to see you again this year in OSH.

Jim Hergert
N6XE, "An Sex Y" L4P

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