I'm working on I lancair 360 that has water-based paint on the underside. This is the second Lancair that decided to land with the gear up. The problem I see with the water-based paint is the preped surface was too smooth. I would start the first Coat with nothing more that 220 grit. With the final coat nothing more than 400 grit. This planes prep surface was so smooth I was able to pull off big sheets of paint.
Lee Van Dyke On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:24 AM, "Sid Wood" <smwood at md.metrocast.net> wrote: > I used Acrylic Latex exterior house paint. Lowe's sells it for $26/gal. I > sprayed with a conventional qt. cup gun also from Lowe's using my 1/3 hp air > compressor with inline pressure regulator set for 30 psi and an oil > separator. I used 3 coats primer and 3 coats top coat semi-gloss. Light > hand wet sanding between each primer coat with 400 grit; each top coat wet > hand sanded with 600 grit. Sprayed two coats gloss, no sanding. Gloss goes > on like water, so have to drop the air pressure to 10 psi and move the gun > fast or it will run. Perhaps should have used a smaller jet for the gun for > the gloss coats. For the top color coats I had Lowe's tint the white paint > with more white pigment; that makes the paint noticeably even whiter. Flag > bunting trim is vinyl stick-on decals made by a local sign shop. The > fuselage decals are 10 feet long. Costs were $142 for paint and related > supplies and $168 for the vinyl decals. > > Sid Wood > Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 > Mechanicsville, MD, USA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert > What manufacturers water based paint and primer are you using? Satin or > gloss?? Will there be a top coat of clear, also water born? Are you using > HVLP spray equipment? > Patrick > > > Hi everyone, > > I was hoping to have my KR for this years gathering, but it's not in in the > great scheme of things. I am making good progress. It took me some time to > warm up to waterborne paint but after using the primer I'm convinced that > it's a great product, and it doesn't have all the nasty smells. > See you at the gathering! > > http://s449.photobucket.com/user/rkpsk1/library/ > > Robert Pesak > > Hermitage, Tn. > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
