As promised I will now report on the covering issue. Wed nite the owner came over to help decide what direction to go. Included in the choices were completely recovering the whole plane...new colors/scheme...pretty tempting but much work.

We decided to try something. I took a pc of the cream covering off the other end of the roll & it stuck....not good but it did stick. So we covered both sides of the rebuilt wing with it from the main spar back. It looks great in spite of the GREAT effort it took to get it to iron down right. Last night I finished the wing covering with the green color & it stuck much better than the cream roll. I think the roll I had was either really old or somewhat defective. It probably should have been returned but it seems like it will work, time will tell.

Since the top & bottom of this plane wing is virtually identical we changed the bottom side to cream/green stripes from spar back. Looks good. I had to remove pin stripes etc from the original side of the wing & they came off like a pc of cheap masking tape. The owner had previously bought a roll of red sig aerokote & wrapped the leading edge of both wings so it would be more visible in the air. One of those pcs blew off while he was flying a week or so ago. This was a pc probably 5" wide & 3 ft long wrapped around the LE. I removed the other one with little effort.

My conclusion is I hope I never have to work with Sig aerokote again, I certainly won't purchase any. But hopefully his plane will be back in the air soon. If this covering starts failing in flight it will probably get a total recover, the plane is worth it.

I will try to post a pix of the finished wing/scheme

Ken<><