Re: Top Gloss

[Paul McAllister <paul.mcallister@qia.net>]

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From: "Tony S. Krzyzewski" <tonyk@kaon.co.nz>
Subject:  Top Gloss


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> For those that are considering Top Gloss, I have just moved from.. be
> careful .. to .. avoid the product at all costs..
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> After six months of battling with Top Gloss I discovered a surface
> separation just at the back of the fin. I peeled this back and within
> ten minutes there was no surface paint left on my fuselage. The entire
> coating came off in large sheets with very little effort leaving me with
> a fuselage in Smooth Prime primer. 
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> Having now made the decision to have the plane commercially painted I
> repeated the process on my flying surfaces. By the end of the afternoon
> I had peeled off the paint from both stabilators, one flap and one
> aileron .. all with little more than my fingernails and the edge of a
> knife.
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> Once I have done all of the surfaces I am going to pack up all the mess
> and post it to Polyfiber and tell them what I think of the product! 
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> All told I probably wasted 250 hours of work using Top Gloss.
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> Tony
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