Water based paint = a big mess... House paint in perticular... It's not flexible enough to actually adhere without cracking/peeling...
Prior owner of my project used the stuff.... UGH! On 9/11/2013 7:32 PM, Lee Van Dyke wrote: > I'm working on I lancair 360 that has water-based paint on the underside. > This is the second Lancair that decided to land with the gear up. The > problem I see with the water-based paint is the preped surface was too > smooth. I would start the first Coat with nothing more that 220 grit. With > the final coat nothing more than 400 grit. This planes prep surface was so > smooth I was able to pull off big sheets of paint. > > Lee Van Dyke > > On Sep 11, 2013, at 11:24 AM, "Sid Wood" <smwood at md.metrocast.net> wrote: > >> I used Acrylic Latex exterior house paint. Lowe's sells it for $26/gal. I >> sprayed with a conventional qt. cup gun also from Lowe's using my 1/3 hp air >> compressor with inline pressure regulator set for 30 psi and an oil >> separator. I used 3 coats primer and 3 coats top coat semi-gloss. Light >> hand wet sanding between each primer coat with 400 grit; each top coat wet >> hand sanded with 600 grit. Sprayed two coats gloss, no sanding. Gloss goes >> on like water, so have to drop the air pressure to 10 psi and move the gun >> fast or it will run. Perhaps should have used a smaller jet for the gun for >> the gloss coats. For the top color coats I had Lowe's tint the white paint >> with more white pigment; that makes the paint noticeably even whiter. Flag >> bunting trim is vinyl stick-on decals made by a local sign shop. The >> fuselage decals are 10 feet long. Costs were $142 for paint and related >> supplies and $168 for the vinyl decals. >> >> Sid Wood >> Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 >> Mechanicsville, MD, USA >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> Robert >> What manufacturers water based paint and primer are you using? Satin or >> gloss?? Will there be a top coat of clear, also water born? Are you using >> HVLP spray equipment? >> Patrick >> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was hoping to have my KR for this years gathering, but it's not in in the >> great scheme of things. I am making good progress. It took me some time to >> warm up to waterborne paint but after using the primer I'm convinced that >> it's a great product, and it doesn't have all the nasty smells. >> See you at the gathering! >> >> http://s449.photobucket.com/user/rkpsk1/library/ >> >> Robert Pesak >> >> Hermitage, Tn. >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >> To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change >> options >> > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
