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Re: Top Gloss Finish

Subject: Re: Top Gloss Finish
From: Rowland & Wilma Carson <rowil@clara.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:56:38

>I used Superfil and Top Gloss on my Europa.  I was scared of the more toxic
>Imron and such.  I used a HVLP gun and thinned it about 10%.  I never did
>get a balance between run-downs and orange peel

It's my understanding that the PolyFiber stuff does not like to be 
shot from the modern HVLP gun and prefers the old-fashioned wasteful 
type. I think it was the PolyFiber reps in UK that told me so. I am 
intending (one day in the almost unforeseeable future) to use the 
PolyFiber process, so I will probably do some comparison tests 
between my HVLP gun and an el-cheapo regular type before I start on 
the aircraft pieces.

>If I had it to do over
>again, I would have the plane professionally painted

Many of us think we might do things differently next time around, but 
some of us are real slow learners ....

regards

Rowland


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