I am getting a new plane, and would like to know if anybody makes a paint that will stick to a spinner well enough to withstand an electric starter. I do not want to repaint. Will appliance epoxy work?

I'm not sure, never tried to paint a spinner... If you scuffed up the surface enough (sand paper) for the paint to adhere to maybe that would help?

The spinner is going to mar the paint. You CAN NOT 100% prevent it.

You can minimize it with good technique.. press the starter FIRMLY agaist the spinner before turning it on and have the throttle set to your fast idle setting. (faster and the engine mars the spinner against the starter cone...) The straighter you align the starter to the engine the less you mar the spinner.

Which type spinner are you painting? Aluminum or plastic? Some paints do beter on aluminum... others do better on plastic... They are NOT the same paints.

And f you think its bad keeping from marng the aluminum and plastic spinners after painting... try the guys that HAND CARVE a spinner from laminated balsa!. (it works very well...) You don't dare put an electric starter against those spinners. You hand start.

For an aluminum spinner, try a coat of self etching primer first, followed by epoxy or engine paint. You can also powdercoat it. Powercoating is extremely durable.

I've painted aluminum spinners with Sears enamels (I think it was Rustoleum in disguise) and it held up fine to an electric starter.

I threaded a bolt through the spinner and then assembled the spinner. The bolt was chucked in a drill. While turning the spinner in the drill, I airbrushed the color. No primer was used.

Then I clamped the bolt in a pair of vice-grips and baked it in the over for a couple hours. I let it cool with the oven and the paint was hard as a rock. An electric starter couldn't touch it, but a nose-over on tarmac will scuff it. Easy to repaint though.

CafeenMan, that sounds like a great idea, I will have to try that!

If i were to use appliance epoxy, should i still bake it on? If so, for about how long and what tempurature? Would i need to rough it up any? I know that appliance epoxy is made for metals, so that would probably be my best choice for paint. the spinner is aluminum