Pitts S1-S by EMHW
09-13-2014, 04:34 PM
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According to the tracking number the vinyl should be here on Wednesday, the cowl? sometime this week-I hope, and the rest of the supplies on Friday. So the plan is still to spend the week getting it wet sanded and back to white. I have decided to do both wings striping on top over as well as wet sand everything, clear the repaint and then clear everything one final time. I will post as it goes along, I know you 'all like pics as well as I.
09-15-2014, 06:53 PM
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No, brain fart. That should have said canopy.
Spent the first half of the day at the docs office, the second half was spent doing mud work on the room until I ran out of mud. Tomorrow I will get started on some wing sanding.
Spent the first half of the day at the docs office, the second half was spent doing mud work on the room until I ran out of mud. Tomorrow I will get started on some wing sanding.
09-16-2014, 06:41 AM
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Haven't started yet, I am thinking of waiting until I have the new templates to take some measurements from just to make sure this is the right way to go for correction. Plus, the fact that I closed in my vent window and have to make accommodations for that first. In this MH I sealed all the windows to aid in cooling and heating. There is a small window where a bathroom use to be so I'm thinking I can unseal it, get a dryer fan and motor, build a box to fit and have a nice vent for now. Maybe even good enough for permanent.
09-16-2014, 01:19 PM
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Scrapped the dryer blower and went with a new and better fan. I will also open that covered window back up, could use the natural light anyways. I am going to make a panel that the fan is permanently fastened to that will sit in the window. That will be much easier to set-up and take-down than any other method. I also had a brain fart (thought) today about the striping, after checking, it out turns out I may not need to sand everything off. I think I can, after removing the gold pin striping, mask the edge of the stripes to where they should have came to a point, sand and repaint the outer edge white, reinstall the gold pinstriping then proceed with another clear coat. I will finish up the window and fan today, then proceed onto the wing work. I will post what I am talking about as I do it.
09-16-2014, 01:54 PM
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If you remember the Michael Stanely band.
They had a song called.
Lets Get The Show On The Road.
Not to rush you. The song just came to mind
Kevin
They had a song called.
Lets Get The Show On The Road.
Not to rush you. The song just came to mind
Kevin
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09-17-2014, 01:26 PM
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Finally, it has taken all day but the gold has been removed and the paint lines wet sanded out. In the morning I will tape the perimeter and then spray some silver to cover the colors and then a good coat of white.
09-17-2014, 02:07 PM
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Ahh, I see the paint fume are getting to you.
Aren't you worried about paint build up with all those previous coats of the white, color coats and then the clear on top... I though you would have to wet sand back down passed all those coats.
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09-17-2014, 03:38 PM
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Very much so.
Not worried at all with this paint. This paint, from previous test, is very light compared to most and the silver will only be a mist and the white should only be one coat. The clear was suppose to be two coats anyways. I have been told I paint very light according to a painting friend. On the first clear coat I used 2/3rds of a quart and my friend said he would have used the whole quart, that is the difference in his paint stroke and mine.
09-22-2014, 11:36 AM
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