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Subject: RE: Primer
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From: "Halle, John" <JJHALLE@stoel.com>

One related tip that I got from a painter at Oshkosh:  If you are going =
to get a pro to paint your airplane, once you get the primer the way you =
want it and sand it reasonably smooth (by your standards) go fly or take =
it to the painter.  Don't spend weeks with 200 grit paper trying to get =
it to paint standard.  The reason is simple: no matter how hard you work =
at it, the painter is not going to like the result and is going to start =
by rough sanding all over again.  Whatever rough sanding you did will =
probably help save him time but any finish sanding is going to disappear =
with the first pass of the board.  Sounds obvious but it didn't occur to =
me.  Sanding is not may favorite thing and I spent hours on my back =
under the airplane trying to get that last scratch out.