I have started painting my interior and am using the sherwin williams self etching primer for most of my aircraft. This has been applied during the construction process and it provides a nice hard finish, similar to the QB wash primers I think. I went to the SW store and asked them what paints go well with the primer Im using, a few came up and I decided on a water based light industrial enamel designed for marine and industrial uses. I figured that would suffice for my interior. So far so good.
Heres the problem. I proceeded to paint parts and then my cockpit it self. I then did some masking ,after the first color cured for a few weeks, for a two tone look and when I removed the tape, after only a few hours of being on, the blue painters tape pulled up the other paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe my mistake was not prepping the primer and thinking I didnt need to. So now what to do, it seems almost impossible to strip the cockpit as it was hard enough to paint with a gun. And then the prospects of stripper getting into rivets and seams and possibly corrosion down the road. The other prospects are that my interior will always have this chipping paint problem. By far this is the most disappointing part of my build experience.
Suggestions? Ideas?
I know alot of parts will not be seen much and or covered with other things but the visible places concern me most.
back to work,
Heres the problem. I proceeded to paint parts and then my cockpit it self. I then did some masking ,after the first color cured for a few weeks, for a two tone look and when I removed the tape, after only a few hours of being on, the blue painters tape pulled up the other paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe my mistake was not prepping the primer and thinking I didnt need to. So now what to do, it seems almost impossible to strip the cockpit as it was hard enough to paint with a gun. And then the prospects of stripper getting into rivets and seams and possibly corrosion down the road. The other prospects are that my interior will always have this chipping paint problem. By far this is the most disappointing part of my build experience.
Suggestions? Ideas?
I know alot of parts will not be seen much and or covered with other things but the visible places concern me most.
back to work,