|
|
Posted for MikeEasley@aol.com:
Scott,
Micro is really hard to feather out flat over the softer primer or even the
wing skin. I tried and it never was really straight. Every batch of micro
has a different hardness so they sand differently. I ended up using micro
to
get it close and used some lightweight body filler for the last little bit,
never more than maybe 1/32" thick. So the micro gets the shape, the body
filler blends the micro to the skin, and the primer gets it very straight.
I always wet out the wing surface before applying the micro. I painted the
pure epoxy beyond the micro fill area by a few inches to create a barrier to
protect the wing skin. Thick micro is really hard to spread thin and
feather
over the low area. Thin micro is easy to spread but a pain to sand. I
mixed the micro really dry, so dry that it was almost impossible to spread.
I
held a heat gun in one had and the spreader in the other, warmed up the
micro
so it would spread. [another trick is to cover the micro with a sheet of peel ply before smoothing... it keeps the micro from being dragged around when you trowel it.]
The WLS tends to dry with a semi-glossy surface. Even after sanding, it's
still glossy in the low areas that you want to fill. I took a piece of 80
grit and roughed up the remaining glossy areas before using filler or micro.
I would say that I finally got relatively good at body work about the time I
was done!
Mike Easley
Colorado Springs
|
|