REFLECTOR: painting fuselage

[Terry Miles]

Scott,
I handed your below note to the painter, and commented that a lot of the
guys try to create homemade paint booths to work in...I actually have
one myself in Chicago.  He said one thing to be mindful of is not enuf
exhaust air grabbing the paint particle before they can settle back on
the painted surface.  I never gave that condition any conscious
thought--only that I have proper ventilation for me.  
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:48 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: painting fuselage


Terry,

I did the tack coat bottom upand just didn't like how I ended up
overspraying the top of the strakes when I painted the top of the
fuselage. So I painted the cover coat top to bottom.

top rear,
top right front cover to nose
top left front
top left strake, go over leading edge to about 6inches under top right
strake, continue over edge to cover right bottom strake bottom left
strake left side to half way under fusalage whole lenght right side to
meet wet edge running down middle of fuselage bottom

You can't have to many lights, I had 4 halogens, two were doubles on
stands.  I was moving them all the time, more would have been easier.

Practice on the wings first.  I have to repaint one wing... I still
ended up with a few runs, hopefully I can pull a few trcks to hide
them..

Scott

> Scott,
> Maybe I missed it, but....what painting sequence did you decide on, 
> and what would you have to offer back? Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] 
> On Behalf Of martyh
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: painting fuselage
>
>
> I'd Paint the top of the fuselage before i did the strakes, thinks 
> about it.
>
> Marty
>
>
>
>> I'm a couple days from painting my fuselage .
>>
>> The wings are off.   Any hints on the perfect sequence?
>>
>> My plan is paint the bottom of the fuselage, then the
>> bottom of the left  strake, bottom of right strake, top of left 
>> strake, top of right strake,  top of fuselage..
>>
>> Scott
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