fstringham7a
Well Known Member
RE
ainting bottom of fuselage....?????
Painting of my RV7A is underway with all the work necessary to prepare and prep the FG parts. In the middle of this mind numbing exercise of getting rid of flaws and pin holes in the fiberglass I started to think a head to the fuse. painting process. Which led me to this questikon ......
How to paint the bottom of the fuse with my Sata gun? The gun to paint 90 degrees to the fuse places the canister of paint such that gravity will pull it down so it won't be the orfice ready to supply the sray nozzle in the best case or will come out the cannister air hole at the worst case. I can see if I go to a 60 degree shoot angle then these two problems wioll go away. But as you know the rule is: keep the gun 90 degrees to the surface being painted !
Monday I am going to shoot with water as a test to see if I am just having a bout with the old what ifs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if I had just gone with a real mans airplane I could have followed Sam B. lead and put the aircraft on it's nose to paint the bottom.
The light goes on! Maybe lower tail to do the front half and then dig a hole in my garage floor to lower the nose so that the rear half will be raised!![Eek! :eek: :eek:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Help....Any ideas/accounts/forum threads I have over looked/pictuers would be appreciated.
My prayers this night are also with all who have been effected by that BAD BOY IKE..........
Frank @ 1L8 (Hur-a-cun, Utah) ....RV7A... painting??????????
Painting of my RV7A is underway with all the work necessary to prepare and prep the FG parts. In the middle of this mind numbing exercise of getting rid of flaws and pin holes in the fiberglass I started to think a head to the fuse. painting process. Which led me to this questikon ......
How to paint the bottom of the fuse with my Sata gun? The gun to paint 90 degrees to the fuse places the canister of paint such that gravity will pull it down so it won't be the orfice ready to supply the sray nozzle in the best case or will come out the cannister air hole at the worst case. I can see if I go to a 60 degree shoot angle then these two problems wioll go away. But as you know the rule is: keep the gun 90 degrees to the surface being painted !
Monday I am going to shoot with water as a test to see if I am just having a bout with the old what ifs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if I had just gone with a real mans airplane I could have followed Sam B. lead and put the aircraft on it's nose to paint the bottom.
The light goes on! Maybe lower tail to do the front half and then dig a hole in my garage floor to lower the nose so that the rear half will be raised!
Help....Any ideas/accounts/forum threads I have over looked/pictuers would be appreciated.
My prayers this night are also with all who have been effected by that BAD BOY IKE..........
Frank @ 1L8 (Hur-a-cun, Utah) ....RV7A... painting??????????