painting tips needed

[John Pavlick]

Jim,
 If you do that, it will probably mean you won't be painting for a while...

John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com


  -----Original Message-----
  From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Glaze
  Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:04 PM
  To: discussion at nsrca.org
  Subject: Re: painting tips needed


  Jim: Should we make sure we ask her to take them off before we run paint
through them? ;-) BG

  Jim Ivey wrote:

John
 I like your idea. That's a good excuse to eat pudding in the little plastic
cups. They make excellent mix cups.. My airbrush was $5.00 also,just thin a
little more than normal and spray 1extra thin coat,then when you are
cleaning up the A/B with reducer,spray a coat of the tinted reducer on and
this gets rid of orange peeling.  By the way strain the mixed PPG (paint)
through wifey's panty hose before spraying. Better ask her first.

Jim Ivey

From: "John Ferrell" <johnferrell at earthlink.net>
Date: 2005/01/15 Sat PM 04:10:55 EST
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Subject: Re: painting tips needed

I will go against the world on this one. IF you use PPG Concept, you can do
a perfect job with the cheapest Harbor Freight external mix air brush
(sometimes on sale for $5). It is slow but it works fine.

Set the air to about 20 pounds. Use throw away plastic butter dishes, cups &
such for practice.

Of course, if you need an excuse for a SATA, this is it...

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ed Alt
  To: discussion at nsrca.org
  Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:43 AM
  Subject: painting tips needed


  I'm looking for advice for painting a composite fuselage.  I've already
got a 20 gallon, 8.4CFM at 40 PSI compressor with a good quality automotive
spray gun.  I'm considering getting either an HVLP gun or possibly a Badger
airbrush of some type.  I have the usual goals in mind for light weight,
good glossy finish etc.  I'm leaning towards the airbrush only because it
seems like I could probably have the best control over laying down a light
finish that way.  I will most likely use PPG concept paint for the finish.

  Another question - the project is a Temptation with fixed stab.  Although
I'm sure I could do a decent job of transitioning Monokote at the seam where
the paint would end, I'm thinking of doing a light glass job on the stab and
just painting that as well.  I will have an OS 1.60 up front, so it might
not hurt to add a little more weight back there through painting.  For an
area as small as the stab, this seems reasonable.  Is this a bad idea or
not?

  Thanks
  Ed




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