Polished Aluminum Spinner

Well... it is stripped, sanded, polished..

Now, how do we keep it that way?

What do you guys use? How often?

Dave

Dave wrote:
Well... it is stripped, sanded, polished..

Now, how do we keep it that way?

What do you guys use? How often?

Dave
Clear powdercoat.

--
John Kimmel


GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!

On 11-Jun-2006, Dave wrote:

Now, how do we keep it that way?

What do you guys use? How often?



We just wax it along with the rest of the airplane, usually twice a year or
so. The spinner still looks shiny after several years. Our plane is
hangared -- I suspect that it might get some discoloration due to water
spotting if was left outside.

Such stains, and others, can be removed using aluminum polish, available
wherever housewares are sold.

IMHO, a bare aluminum spinner requires less cosmetic maintenance than a
painted one, as paint tends to chip and get eroded by flying through rain

-Elliott Drucker

Now, how do we keep it that way?

It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it
Step Two: Repeat Step One (often)

Kobra (with Polished Al spinner and black hands and fingers)

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:07:34 -0400, "Kobra"
wrote:


Now, how do we keep it that way?

It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it

Which can take 2 to 3 hours.
If it takes that much work for a spinner imagine what it takes for
some of these planes that are polished instead of painted.

Step Two: Repeat Step One (often)

And water spots are terrible things to behold.


Kobra (with Polished Al spinner and black hands and fingers)

Corn Starch works pretty well.

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

On 2006-06-14, Roger wrote:
Which can take 2 to 3 hours.

On a spinner? Only if you allow a year's worth of tarnish to build up!
The entire polished half of our Cessna 140's fuselage only took about 4
hours. A spinner is a fraction of the size.

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It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it

Which can take 2 to 3 hours.

2-3 hours? To polish a SPINNER?

Mary and I can do our spinner AND our prop in the time it takes to drink a
beer.

Well, two, if it's hot, and we're parched...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 06/14/06 08:57, Jay Honeck wrote:
It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it

Which can take 2 to 3 hours.

2-3 hours? To polish a SPINNER?

Mary and I can do our spinner AND our prop in the time it takes to drink a
beer.

Well, two, if it's hot, and we're parched...

:-)

Perhaps the spinner only "looks" finished (after you've had
the beer, that is) ? ;-)


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

A TWO BEER job?

Wait till I tell Cory, he was worried. He will volunteer for the job
for TWO beers!

Dave

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:57:27 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it

Which can take 2 to 3 hours.

2-3 hours? To polish a SPINNER?

Mary and I can do our spinner AND our prop in the time it takes to drink a
beer.

Well, two, if it's hot, and we're parched...

:-)

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:57:27 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

It's a two step process...

Step One: Polish it

Which can take 2 to 3 hours.

2-3 hours? To polish a SPINNER?

Even if I do it every month it takes over an hour. It's as if the
water spots are eating their way in... Or maybe I'm just too fussy.
No, it's not that as it's probably more like lack of ambition.


Mary and I can do our spinner AND our prop in the time it takes to drink a
beer.

Well, two, if it's hot, and we're parched...

You should never, ever, let your spinner get hot and parched.

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


:-)