Great tip!
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of MikeEasley@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008
11:21 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Cabin interior
window question
I'm sure you used e-glass, since you need
to see through the cured layup to draw the lines! :-)
I use very similar technique and
it works very well. I added one other step. I'm assuming
exterior paint is finished. I mask the interior side of the window with
blue Fine Line tape, offsetting the tape edge into the
window about 1/8" from the exterior paint line. I lightly sand the
interior surface of the window. Then I spray paint that area with
black. Follow up with an additional couple coats with a color that
matches your headliner material. Then do your two bid window ring layups
and mark them at the edge of your new interior paint lines. When you
trim the rings, trim them back about 1/4" from the pen line. When
you attach them to the window, and install the headliner, you'll have about
3/16" of your interior paint around the window showing. On the
exterior you have a 1/8" black line around the window edge. By doing
this, you don't see the bare fiberglass in the inside, and you don't see the
headliner from the outside. Whew!