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Old 06-01-2007 | 01:35 PM
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glowplug50
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Default RE: PAINTING WITH KRYLON

All sounds good. I have a 48 inch fan going but it just seems to give me more problems. If I had painted this thing 4 weeks ago when we had such good weather I probably would not be experiencing so much trouble. I have never gotten along with paints to well to begin with.

In the mean time......

I took another shot at it after sanding the top surface of the wing down with some 320. I was able to get a darn near perfect cote down with the exception of a few dry looking places.. I don't know if I should sand the offending areas or just try shooting them again.

While I was at the hardware store I picked up a tapered rubber stopper (shaped like a cork) about 1/2 inch at one end and maybe 3/4 at the other. My ignition wires came with 2 wires coming from the module and one of the leads has a 4 pin plug on it that needs to be on the engine size of the fire wall. I drilled an 1/8 hole through the stopper and put a mandrel for my Dremel through it and chucked it up in my Dremel. I held it up against a flat file, fairly fine tooth, and turned the stopper down to a straight barrel with about a 1/8 inch shoulder on one end. I already had a hole in the fire wall that would just allow the 4 pin connector through so I turned the stopper down till it was very tight going in and then drilled the fire wall with a bigger drill bit to make it a good fit. Its easier to control the size of the bit then a piece of rubber turning 30000 rpm. I drilled the center of the stopper out just a little more to give room for the 2 leads and then split it length wise to allow putting the wires through the stopper. It fits nice and snuggly and I will probably coat it with a fine film of silicone sealant when I install it permentaly. It looks pretty good and should do a good jub of sealing the hole as well as protecting the ignition wires on both sides of the firewall from any kind of rubbing. It took a lot less time to do then it took me to write this.