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Guys, thought I would pass this along, I have been
trying to paint the boot cowl and the trim for a week now and it rains every
afternoon. I need to get these parts painted before I can start the
13B. Last night I tried plan B, getting the prep done to paint in the
morning, well it was raining this morning and it was still raining
tonight. I had an engine and clutch to put in the tractor so I did that
today. JohnD It may be that only us farm folks have
this much fun painting. Humor is the glue that holds the world
together
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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:27 PM
Subject: [TailwindForum] Education in Painting
My Mother being a school teacher taught me many
things and everything I know about painting, before and during the second world
war, Mom was always buying a little paint to spiff things up, that was her way
of coping with the fact that most everyone including us, was in the poor
house. During the war she drove a 36 Plymouth which had some kind of
beige/cream color paint on it and IMHO was one color that would knock a maggot
off its proverbial eating place. One day (1945) she came home from town
with a gallon of black enamel paint, some sand paper and a couple of paint
brushes and announced to me that we were going to sand the car and put a new
black paint job on it. So, one bright morning as always with painting we
started the prep work and after lunch like on numerous other occasions,
she said that it looked like rain and we had better get it finished,so we
started the painting.
Well, needless to
say about the time we finished with the paint it started to rain, she said jump
in the car and we went racing across the road to park the car in the neighbors
lean-to on the barn which contained a straw loft and a overhead roosting place
for a couple dozen chickens. We all arrived at the same time, what a
commotion, it rained for 3 days and when Mom went back to retrieve her car, she
was devastated. I thought it looked kind of neat with pock marks, chicken
S@#* and feathers stuck all over it, like how many kids got to ride around in a
black 4 door limo with feathers stuck all over it. It took two years for
all the S@#* and feathers to wear off, even her sisters didn't dare laugh, she
would have killed them.
Now that is
the way I paint, I get ready in the morning when the sun is shining and start
throwing the paint in the afternoon when rain is imminent. I have a paint
booth in the garage, but the plane is in it and all the pieces from disassemble
are packed under and around it and I hate to move anything until I get it back
together for fear I will never find it again.
Bob, your
paint job looks real neat with all the squares and judging from the weather in
west Texas I seen on the news last week, you folks must have to chain everything
to the railroad tracks for painting and hope the tracks don't blow
away. Tomorrow is another day and I'll get ready in the morning and
see if I can beat the rain after lunch with the spray gun. Happy orange
peel. Farmer John
- I hope I'm not the only one having all this fun,
how about some real stories guys. Humor is the glue that holds the world
together
Build those
rudder pedals like the plans I have and you will need to add 2 inches on each
side of the boot cowl to get them in the plane. __._,_.___
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