wrote:
George Patterson wrote:

: I spoke with a fellow who redid his Champ. IIRC, his cost was a bit over $2,000.
: A lot depends on whether you use bolts of fabric and glue the stuff directly to
: the frame or buy pre-sewn envelopes. Maule glues the fabric onto the frame.

: Maule Flight will charge you $12,000 for a strip and recover.

... but then it must be painted as well, right Depending on how much of *that*
you do yourself, it could cost considerably more than the recovering.

Both costs I quoted include painting. In the case of the Maule, $12,000 included
stripping paint from metal and fiberglass parts, removing the fabric, replacing
and silver-coating the fabric, priming the other parts of the aircraft, and
shooting with polyurethane color coats in a Maule standard paint scheme. That
cost was obtained from Rautgunde Maule at the AOPA Expo in Philadelphia some
years back, though. It might be higher today.

The guy that redid his Champ painted it with the not-so-accurate blue/yellow
military scheme. I don't remember what type of color coats he used. The gun he
was using appeared to me to be an older design (not HVLP).

George Patterson
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