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Posted for "Curtis Wray" <Curtis.Wray@dynetics.com>:
Jim,
I have seen your aircraft at Oshkosh and Reno and admired it with envy.
Could you share some of the paint details? For example, which primer system
did you use, top coat, etc. I am particularly interested in the "pearl"
white base coat, it is beautiful. BTW, I spoke with you at Oshkosh and
greatly appreciate the time you took to answer my questions.
Curtis Wray
IVPT
Thanks Curtis for all your kind words.
My paint was a very high end paint job and I'm still very proud to have it. Tom Conner painted it in Bend, OR. and it was the 30 Th. Lancair he has painted. He tried his hardest to talk me out of the Pearl White paint since he knows that he would have to touch it up sometime in the future. It is impossible to touch it up without seeing the evidence, However, I haven't had to do that yet. After 170 plus hours it still looks like new. Next week I hope to see him and have some very minor touch up done on the prop tips. The second color is the color change paint also form BASF called Extreme and it is easy to touch up.
The paint process is long, but the brief of it is, after making the airplane "Paint Ready" Tom sprayed the airplane 15 coats. Sanding most off. Different primers with different grit sanding, sealers, base coats (3 colors), 3 clear coats, with at least one of those color sanded and buffed so no orange peel was left. Still I am amazed that the carbon fabric is starting to show in several places. I'm convinced you cannot stop that.
Hope to see you again this year in OSH.
Jim Hergert
N6XE, "An Sex Y" L4P
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