(6-4 step 5 & 7-6 step 13): So, we decide last night we'd get up early and get all
the parts Alodined before heading off to the local EAA Chapter meeting. I don't
have a picture of it here, but one thing that concerned me is we used a screen
door to hold the parts as we rinsed them off last night. The intent was for
them to be on the screen just long enough to rinse them, as they would be
Alodined soon after. Welp... we wound up storing them overnight on the screen
door (DOH!) Some of them had some pretty interesting designs in them this
morning. We wiped them down and proceeded with the Alodining just to see how
they'd turn out (the spots visible on the spar below are where I sanded out some
scratches prior to Alodining)
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Ok, back from the chapter
meeting... some good info on fiberglass work, and met a lot of new
people (only our second time there). I also took one of our parts
affected by the screen door fiasco with us and showed it to our tech
advisor... he seemed to think it was fine, especially since we still
plan on priming it. That's my plan for the rest of the day, to
get all this stuff primed! First, I needed a nap... we didn't get
much sleep last night... I guess I needed it more than I thought
because 2+ hours later, I still wasn't ready to get up, but I
reluctantly did. Anyway... I roll out into the garage, and start
getting things set up for priming...
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before, so that took a little getting used to! I think I still
need some work though... a bunch actually!! Man... this was a
frustrating week for me... it was a learning week... a lot of time
spent on stuff that didn't seem to produce a lot! And the stuff
we did do, didn't seem to come out to our expectations. I primed
tonight for the very first time... it left a lot to be desired. I
planned to get it all done tonight, but that didn't happen. It
was windy, so I wasn't able to open the garage door for fear of stuff
blowing all over the place (yes, it's that windy outside). I
usually open the door about 6 or 8 inches in these cases, and even then
you can feel a breeze inside the garage. That being the case I
decided we were good to go for priming so I went at it. After the
first round I sprayed some thinner through the gun to clean it out... I
don't know if anybody reading this has used the AKZO recommended TR-19
thinner before, but let me tell you that stuff is POTENT! I
didn't realize it at the time (my filter mask eveidently works
exceptionally well!) but the fumes from this stuff were
phenominal! I came in the house, took off my mask, and inside of
30 seconds, Angela was remarking about the fumes... from the other side
of the house! Lesson learned... All priming will be done outside,
or at the very least with the garage door completely opened!
We're letting the garage air out now, and will continue the priming
later! Another lesson learned/decision made... our original
priming strategy was to Alodine & prime all non-Alclad parts, and
only prime the Alclad stuff. We completely forgot that most of
the spars and ribs are made out of Alclad sheet
(DOH!) If we'd realized this, we'd have saved
ourselves a lot of time this week by not having to Alodine 90% of what
we did... oh well... frustrating. Good thing is I've learned a
lot this week... a lot!
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