Kevin McGreevy
I'm New Here
Hi all,
This is my first post, and my mentor in MT said that I should contact y'all for this question- so he is to blame! I am not even building an RV even tho I really like the aircraft and am totally inspired by all that have taken on a project. I fly (train) in one of those glass diamonds- but I digress.
I am repairing my sailboat (home) that was damaged in Katrina and just got around to refinishing the mast. Stripped it down, sanded washed, prepsol, then a nice wash of Dupont 225s, wash and dry, conversion coat with 226s. Waited for the magic to happen. When I rinsed the 226s after about 5 min, there was no gold coloration to the aluminum. If you looked carefully, you could see a slight "rainbow effect" . The aluminum is T6061 and I do not know if that has any bearing on the problem.
So, in light of the "no-gold", went into a hold on applying the Corlar epoxy primer. Can any shed light on where I may have screwed up the process. I'm pretty anal about following directions, and I had a nice sheeting on the 225 rinse so I am just stymed.
I know you folks have treated more aluminum parts than I ever will, so I really respect your collective wisdoms. Thanks to all
All the best,
Kevin
This is my first post, and my mentor in MT said that I should contact y'all for this question- so he is to blame! I am not even building an RV even tho I really like the aircraft and am totally inspired by all that have taken on a project. I fly (train) in one of those glass diamonds- but I digress.
I am repairing my sailboat (home) that was damaged in Katrina and just got around to refinishing the mast. Stripped it down, sanded washed, prepsol, then a nice wash of Dupont 225s, wash and dry, conversion coat with 226s. Waited for the magic to happen. When I rinsed the 226s after about 5 min, there was no gold coloration to the aluminum. If you looked carefully, you could see a slight "rainbow effect" . The aluminum is T6061 and I do not know if that has any bearing on the problem.
So, in light of the "no-gold", went into a hold on applying the Corlar epoxy primer. Can any shed light on where I may have screwed up the process. I'm pretty anal about following directions, and I had a nice sheeting on the 225 rinse so I am just stymed.
I know you folks have treated more aluminum parts than I ever will, so I really respect your collective wisdoms. Thanks to all
All the best,
Kevin