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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:58:52 -0400, " jls"
wrote: What's the weight penalty for not stripping an old 172, just painting over the old paint, after sanding it first, of course. I'm new at this but willing to make a go of it. I'd like to use a high-gloss polyurethane and some bright colors. TIA for your advice. I've been receiving a lot of priceless advice in this forum lately, and in a yahoogroups forum. For which I am grateful. From a standpoint - if you are going to paint the plane, it really should be stripped first. There can be corrosion under the existing paint that you will not see until it bubbles up the paint. As a side note, if you try to sell your plane in the next few years, anyone buying should be asking how the paintjob was completed, and if you have proof (pictures/video) to verify it was correctly stripped, etched, alodined, primed, etc... |
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