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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Steve,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Depends on what was used. CA Models planes won't
hold up to the thinner. Even methanol softens the gelcoat. PLF Concept fuses
will hold up to just about anything you throw at them, including acetone. Chris
is on the right track. Some manufacturers use lacquer-based primers as their gel
coat, others use epoxy-based primers as their gelcoat. Epoxy will hold up,
lacquer won't. As Chris said, true gelcoats are rare these days, mostly because
they're too heavy. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Verne</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=patternrules@earthlink.net
href="mailto:patternrules@earthlink.net">Steven Maxwell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:30
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] gel coat
??</DIV>
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<DIV> Thanks Chris that was my thinking, I was going to originally sand
it all but that's very time consuming and lacquer gums up sandpaper very bad.
My main concern was I didn't want to hurt the fiberglass, carbon, and epoxy on
the fuse. If the "gelcoat" is an enamel or polyu, the lacquer thinner won't do
much to it. More testing and then I'll run with it. By the way cotton balls
work great for this they suck up alot of paint and are cheap.</DIV>
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<DIV>Steven Maxwell</DIV>
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<A title=cjm767driver@hotmail.com
href="mailto:cjm767driver@hotmail.com">Chris Moon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=patternrules@earthlink.net
href="mailto:patternrules@earthlink.net">patternrules@earthlink.net</A>;<A
title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA Mailing List</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 3/25/2007 10:07:14 AM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] gel
coat ??</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>Steve:<BR> Most fuses don't
have an actual gel coat but just a coat of primer which the thinner might
attack. A true gel coat is tough like a normal resin coat and should
be ok against thinner but I have never seen a model fuse with a true gel
coat. I would lightly wipe off what you can of the lustercoat with the
thinner and wet sand the rest.<BR><BR>Chris<BR><BR>Steven Maxwell wrote:
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<DIV>Will laquer thinner attack gelcoat? The test I have done show it
takes very little gelcoat off. Reason for asking is I'm about to strip a
plane that is painted with Topflight Lustrekote and repaint with
PPG.</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks</DIV>
<DIV>Steven Maxwell</DIV>
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