removing transparency coating

http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kcf.html

Look at this link towards the bottom of the page. It has some good
details on getting rid of the film covering.

On Sep 19, 11:44*am, wrote:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kcf.html

Look at this link towards the bottom of the page. *It has some good
details on getting rid of the film covering.

Hey, guess what? Hot water works, I just poured boiling water over a
K-6 canopy that must be 30 years old. The protective covering was hard
as a rock. Boiling water made it soft and rubbery and I was able to
get one side started and then peal the whole covering off. Anyone need
a K-6 canopy? Also have 2 open Cirrus forward canopies and a blue rear
Cirrus canopy (mounted). and a Minstrel canopy, all with rock hard
protective covering that we now know how to remove.
JJ

It's almost 11:00 PM and I just finished removing the last of the
Spray-Lat from my HP-24 transparency. Started this morning around
lunch time and pretty much stuck with the project all day.

Thanks to all for suggestions...................... lessons learned:

Paint on Spray-Lat really makes it tough to remove.

Denatured alcohol helps with removal, but really hurts your fingers.

Fingernails make really good removal tools, but they sorta get bent
back
and make nice places for denatured alcohol to flow.

The best scraper is the George Foreman Grill cleaning tool.

Boiling water works great.

I'll be calling Tim next week for some Plexiglas scratch removal
stuff.

Should have some pics of the cleaned up canopy on the HP-24 website
next week, all in all it turned out great and I am pleased with the
results.

Brad

http://hpaircraft.com/hp-24/update_21_sept_09.htm

bottom of the page shows the cleaned up transparency/canopy.

Brad