I am recovering a Great Plane Easysport and would like to know how to clean the fuse after I take the old covering off. I believe the covering is simular to shelf paper and there is sticky residue on the plane where the paper was. I am thinking about using acetone on a cloth to clean it off with, but also have K2R as well. What are your thoughts.

Also the plane is stained where it had been cracked previously. The base color I am going to cover it with is white, so could I use white out or an undercoat to cover up the stains?

Thanks

use white dope to cover any stains.acitone should work on the glue but light sand it with 220 grit after it dries from the wiping.

Thanks much. I also thought about goo-gone. The fuse is very sticky from the residue of the covering.

Thanks to everyone for their help. I used just about everything suggested plus some goo removal stuff purchased at the hardware store. Here is the finished result. The wing was already covered in white;I added the stripping.

Cracked? Are the stains from fuel soaking into the wood?

If so, spray some K2r on the stains to pull the oil out of the wood. The oil weakens the wood for one thing. It also resists the recovering job. Your problem is much more than just looks.

After the K2r has done it's work, consider if the wood needs to be strengthened. If you think so, CA does that really well.

White out? What's that? Like Snowpake? typewriter correction stuff? Don't worry about it, the K2r usually lightens up the wood since the darkness is from the oil and it removes that.

Yea, the typewriter stuff. I changed an engine on a Nexstar and had to cut a piece of the balsa for the muffler to fit. A friend of mine saw the cut and suggested to put whiteout on the cut portion to fuel proof it and match the white covering. So I thought what the heck, if I can use whiteout on the cheek, I could use it on the crack. But you are right, the k2r lightened the wood and you can't see the crack through the covering.

looks like everything turned out good.i like the stripes.

Thank you. The stripes are straighter in real life as than they are shown in the picture.

Just for future consideration: I had to remove all of the covering on a plane I had. It was the shelf paper kind of covering.
When you peeled it off it left the glue residue a lot of the time. Finally, decided to try paint stripper. I sprayed a heavy coat on the covering on the fuselage.
Took a scraper and removed the covering and 99% of the residue quickly and easily.

Used acetone to remove the smll spots left. Wiped it down with acetone, sanded lightly with 400 grit and I am in the process of recovering now.
No problems, thus far.