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Old July 18th 04, 04:39 PM
Roger Halstead
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:59:31 GMT, "OtisWinslow"
wrote:

Getting the bugs off requires no expensive stuff. Just get a spray bottle
and fill
it with water and walk around and mist the areas with bugs on them. Let it
sit about 4 or 5 minutes and wipe it off with a towel. The bugs come right
off.


You must have different bugs than we do. :-)) They take more than a
water soak to come loose.

I use the same stuff I use to clean the plane, Carbon-X. Spray on,
let set a few minutes and wash off. Dilute 60:1 for wash and about
5:1 in the spray bottle for cleaning the grease and oil off the
bottom. Even cleans the landing gear nicely.

If we all remember to clean them off after a flight they pretty much
wipe off, but after sitting a while they seem to become part of the
airplane.

Also if the surface is kept waxed even if nothing more than Pledge,
they will come off easily.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com