Focus Canopy Painting

[wgalligan]

WE have three degrees of hot here in Texas.

1. HOT
2. HOTTER
3. And put away the Tabasco Sauce.
Throw in a little humidity and your ripe for heat stroke.  :-)'

Lance...  I still wouldnt give it up though.. Back in Iowa we had to wait 6 months to be able to get good flying weather.  So I got to Texas as fast as I could.

Wayne


> 90 degrees?  That's not a hot day.  2 years ago we had 65 days over 100. 
> It's routinely 103-105 degrees on the blacktop and the sun is at level 6. 
> Most epoxys have glass transition at 120 degrees and get rubbery soft. 
> I've seen fiberglass cowls with thumb holes in them because they were soft 
> when the owner grabbed the plane to apply the starter.  It's during July 
> and August that you guys get back at us Southerners for all the bragging 
> we do about weather at this time of year.
> 
> --Lance
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> "GeorgeF." <av8tor at flash.net>
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> >Trust me, if you paint it black and set it out in the sun it will get 
> HOT, 
> >some plastics may handle it better than others, but it will get hot, I'll 
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> >bet so hot you can't touch it.  I've done it and got away with it, but 
> >I've also seen them melt/deform so be careful.  The shame of it is that I 
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> >like the looks of a black canopy, both on the ground and in the air, but 
> >having seen a couple deform I've decided against black.  Ya' paints yer' 
> >canopy and ya' takes yer' chances.
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> Not sure what the thickness of the plastics used were or if they were 
> being 
> painted on the inside or outside but mine did NOT get hot to the touch.
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> Mine were painted on the inside, possibly the fact the sun rays need to go 
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> through the plastic before hitting the black may deflect the rays causing 
> them to hit at an angle other than 90 degrees.  This deflection will 
> reduce 
> heat build up.  But I've done about 12 or so planes that way, they've set 
> in full sunlight on 90 degree days and have yet to have one deform in 
> anyway....
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> George
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