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Old January 25th 04, 02:52 PM
jls
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"Badwater Bill" wrote in message [...]of mine was
shooting that a couple years ago on Comanches he was
rebuilding. I think they have some stuff that Dupont makes that
rivals the flexibility of Emeron (which is not too flexible and cracks
in a few years).


People who have been successful with Imron on a fabric aircraft add a
flexitive. I noticed that the latest literature on Stits, now Polyfiber,
declares the use of other paints on its fabric to be a violation of the STC.
Aerothane is most likely an automotive polyurethane to which a flexitive has
been added. As well as a whopping markup.

Billy shows signs of having breathed a lot of those polyisocyanates in
polyurethane, but not until after he wrote his tour de force on soaring with
the baby redtails.

Good luck. I just bought a new paint gun at Harbor Freight from China
that rivals the new $400 guns at the Dupont store. The damn thing
cost me $49 bucks. I shot my Lincoln Towncar with it and it did the
best job I've ever seen with any gun. It's the new high flow, low
pressure type. Nowadays, painting is so easy with all the nice new
materials they have and the new guns. Why would you ever want to
shoot 2-part polyurethane? I would rethink that myself.

Here is a shot of my Minimax in the driveway. Notice how shinny the
finish is.

BWB