painting Vicky

Baby needs a new pair of shoes...
Well, not really. She needs a new coat.

Our Cardinal ('75 RG) is to the point of needing a paint job. She
sits on a tie-down at PDK (Atlanta) and flies, occasionaly, thru
clouds and rain. And it shows.

We are looking for recommendations and pireps on painting. We are
planning a basic white with green (or red) scheme as she has now. We
do not ever expect to get to the top of the hanger-waiting-list, so we
don't want to spend mucho bucks for the
paint-job-to-end-all-paint-jobs. And, of course, we don't want it to
all peel off in two years. What we're after is a good, basic,
middle-of-the-line paint job.

We are posting here looking for:

1- Paint shop recommendations (near PDK?)
2- Cost estimates
3- Down-time estimates
4- Other advice

Steve
(1/3 owner of N2679V, "Vicky", for one year as of tomorrow)

Stephen N Mills wrote:

We are posting here looking for:

1- Paint shop recommendations (near PDK?)

Hi Stephen,

Take a look at http://www.employees.org/~dgbutler/201/201.html, scan down to
"Paint". We decided on Grace Air, have an April date. Don't have any personal
experience yet, but two of my partners who visited the shop were impressed.

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Dave

We had our Archer II done at a small shop at South Fulton
airpark (under the departure stream of ATL's 28L). That was
about 6 years ago, and it still looks pretty good, except for the
normal fiberglass crazing, etc. I think the basic paint job
was right at $4200. Was in the shop for a little less than 2 weeks.
If you want to take a look, hop over to RYY, look for 44979
on the north ramp area.
Mike

Stephen N Mills wrote:
Baby needs a new pair of shoes...
Well, not really. She needs a new coat.

Our Cardinal ('75 RG) is to the point of needing a paint job. She
sits on a tie-down at PDK (Atlanta) and flies, occasionaly, thru
clouds and rain. And it shows.

We are looking for recommendations and pireps on painting. We are
planning a basic white with green (or red) scheme as she has now. We
do not ever expect to get to the top of the hanger-waiting-list, so we
don't want to spend mucho bucks for the
paint-job-to-end-all-paint-jobs. And, of course, we don't want it to
all peel off in two years. What we're after is a good, basic,
middle-of-the-line paint job.

We are posting here looking for:

1- Paint shop recommendations (near PDK?)
2- Cost estimates
3- Down-time estimates
4- Other advice

Steve
(1/3 owner of N2679V, "Vicky", for one year as of tomorrow)