todsladek

I'm looking to refinish the fuselage of my Hobie Hawk and can not seem to find a suitable spray can finish. Monokote "Lustercote" is no longer available in the US in orange because of EPA restrictions. Can anyone tell me what spray can finish would work on a Hobie Hawk fuselage. I'm looking for orange. Thanks!

pokypaden

Krylon enamel should work, it can be found at most hardware stores. However I use Velspar auto paint. It can be bought in pint cans but even at that can be costly, as well as you will need a compressor and sprayer.

soarrich

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Just a thought. When I built mine 30 years ago I used Duplicolor from the auto parts store. If you sand down the fuse you want to run a propane torch over the front plastic part, I don't know why, but it was in the instructions.

snuts

Somewhere I was reading about flashing off plastic, before painting it. I tried to follow it, sounded like a process to bring out some of the petroleum products to the surface, to be removed, to help the paint adhear better.
I may be wrong, hopefully someone else can steer you to the right sorce of this concept. And how important it might be, it may be neglegable. Snuts

2milehiguy

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Do a search for the Hobie hawk site and research this. I have done a few Hobie fuses. After sanding you must use a torch on the forward part of the fuse. After that Krylon and the rest work fine. Bob.