That's what I seem to have. I bought some Randolph paint to touch-up
but never did. I have chipping on the stab as you described. Wings are
fine except for fairings. In fact, every surface facing the prop blast
as been chipped to primer due to flying in the rain. Oh well.

I would love to get it redone. With 900 to go to TBO, I'll probably fly
it out while doing some homebuilding. Except for the chipping paint,
it's been a (cheap) joy. Simplicity is good.

BTW, I didn't buy new - 3rd owner at 35 hours.

Thanks!

George Patterson wrote:
I found out what the paint scheme was from a Randolph representative at
Oshkosh several years ago. He said that Maule used the Ceconite process,
which specifies a coat of nitrate dope, followed by silver butyrate. He
said they would add a coat of white butyrate over the silver as a primer
and then spray the enamel over that. He said it was possible to sand off
the color coats (the enamel) down to the white dope primer or even down
to the silver. Don't go into the silver coat at all -- if you see it,
stop. Once you get the enamel off of the fabric, spray with butyrate
rejuvenator. After that, you can apply either polyurethane or butyrate
top coats.

If you're plane is like mine was when I sold it, you can see patches of
the white butyrate where the color coats have flaked off of the
horizontal stabilizer.

Randolph made the paints Maule was using back then.