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07-07-2016, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Oliver BC & Red Deer Alberta Canada
Posts: 350
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Keep my 4 covered in the hanger and wipe the bugs off between flights. One wash a yr only takes a couple of hrs using Meguiars Quick Detailer. Highly recommended and wouldn't do it any other way.
Tim
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07-07-2016, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
Posts: 3,822
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I have finished my wings long ago and stored them in my hangar, with cotton sheets covering them. To my great sadness, when I recently had to do some more work on them - I found they were corroding! Seems is if the sheets kinda trapped blowing dust (the worst was between the two wings) and then the dust absorbed moisture, which then started corrosion. Probably there was some salt in the moisture, we are not too far from the ocean.
What I think I should have done is occasionally pulled them out and hose them off with water, after the fact i have coated them with the Boeing spray protection. It is a good thing I was not planning on a polished plane!
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07-07-2016, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Oliver BC & Red Deer Alberta Canada
Posts: 350
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I use a flannelette cloth cut to fit and have used like this on all of my aircraft and show cars for over 35 yrs and never a problem. If you have dust on the plane, high humidity etc and wind blowing the cover around then obviously you will wreck your finish.
I have always been in a relatively dry area with low humidity but with that comes a lot of dust.
Tim
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07-07-2016, 05:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Alberta
Posts: 84
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Where I live there is generally low humidity and lots of dust and grit blowing around, so I keep my whole plane covered with sheets any time that it will not be flown for a while. I never let it sit with the canopy uncovered. She stays looking clean.
If you live in an area with generally high relative humidity I would be wary of keeping it covered because of corrosion possibilities.
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RV-6A slow build,
serial # 21681. First flight March 1993
Dec 2019 donation paid
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07-07-2016, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Destin
Posts: 1,543
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fly it more often 
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07-07-2016, 10:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,346
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Polyester banquet tablecloths are surprisingly cheap online and work great. Like $10 for a 12 foot x 5 foot. You can do the whole plane for about $50.
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Mike W
Venice, FL
RV-6A. Mattituck TMX O-360, FP, GRT Sport EFIS, L3 Lynx NGT-9000
N164WM
N184WM reserved (RV-8)....finishing kit in progress. Titan IOX-370
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07-08-2016, 07:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: MERRITT ISLAND, FL
Posts: 360
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A noncloth alternative
I buy 0.7 mil painters drop cloth (actually plastic). 1.0 mil is ok also. Used it for 20 years on my Skybolt and RV. Cheap and much easier to handle than a cloth cover. I do put towels over the canopy and windscreen. When it starts looking bad I toss it and get new.
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Don Stiver
RV8 "Little Pill" N6371S, Merritt Island, Fl.
BPE IO-390, Dual P-mag, MT 3-blade, AFP system
Steen Skybolt: Sold
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07-08-2016, 08:17 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,768
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Quote:
Originally Posted by APACHE 56
I buy 0.7 mil painters drop cloth (actually plastic). 1.0 mil is ok also. Used it for 20 years on my Skybolt and RV. Cheap and much easier to handle than a cloth cover. I do put towels over the canopy and windscreen. When it starts looking bad I toss it and get new.
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Be careful using any kind of plastic. Without proper ventilation, plastic will trap moisture. A dust cover should be able to "breathe".
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
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