Dave
PPG is a company that manufactures paint for the Aviation Industry. Any paint
shop will know about it. There are several other company's who also make paint
for airplanes.
Just contact any Aircraft paint shop.
Regards
Jim Brown
DJA727@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/8/2002 4:45:55 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> acrojim@cfl.rr.com writes:
>
> > Dave;
> >
> > I too, used the poly fiber process up to and including the "Smooth Prime"
> > coats. The primer is great, however!!!!!!!!!! I also used the top gloss
> > paint
> > with very poor results in the paint sticking to the primer.
> >
> > After we painted the plane, we went through the process of wet sanding some
> > of
> > the runs, wet sanding with 1500 wet or dry as per the manual supplied with
> > the
> > paint. We then buffed the paint and had a show quality finish. Great so
> > far.
> >
> > About two or three months later on a flight from south Florida I ran into a
> > very LIGHT RAIN, for maybe two or three minutes, when I got on the ground I
> > found that the paint over the windshield was gone. Only the primer was
> > left. A
> > call to Poly Fiber resulted in me repainting the bow over the windshield
> > using
> > a slightly different technique. This too, came off in the rain. We made the
> > trip to Arlington Washington for the EAA fly in with white electrical tape
> > over
> > the windshield to keep the paint from peeling any further back on the body.
> >
> > We then took a hard look at the whole airplane after the return trip from
> > Arlington, we found that the pant could be peeled off wherever there was a
> > sharp edge, as in the inspection covers. I took a razor blade on the bottom
> > of
> > the wing and I found if I made a small slit I could peel off the paint. As
> > the
> > summer progressed I began to see more primer and less paint.
> >
> > In 2001 we took the a/c to an aviation paint shop and had it repainted
> > using
> > PPG paints, There have been no further problems even when I get caught in
> > the
> > rain.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jim Brown
> > N398JB
>
> WOW - This sounds like a rule out for Top Gloss! What is a PPG Paint?
>
> Dave
> A227
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