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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: removing plastic cover on flaperons |
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| Quote: | Well today I finally got that blasted stuff off!!! I think what bakes it on is probably light. one side was much worse than the other on both flaperons. I think I tried just about everything to loosen it and this is what I found really worked. I read your post Lynn about the paint stripper so I tried it. I bought a can of Klean-Strip KS-3 Premium Stripper, it comes in a copper colored can. Put it on fairly thick and then covered it with some plastic to keep it from drying out. Left it for an hour or more depending on what side I was working on. On the easier side, it would come off in big sheets, on the bad side, I scrapped it with a piece of wood and the worst bits I used my fingernails. I tried some of the stripper on a bit of foam from the strut fairing and it didn't seem to hurt that foam at all so I was a bit less worried about the foam in the flaperons. When I was done, I washed the flaperons with soap and water and then rinsed them real well. Bare aluminum never looked so nice!! Hope this is a help to others, it sure worked for me. Jim Chuk Avids Kitfox 4 Mn
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Lynn Matteson
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:41 am Post subject: removing plastic cover on flaperons |
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Just for the record, Jim, I don't think I said "paint stripper" as
such. I used paint thinner...mineral spirits. I would have been real
timid about using it near the foam "ribs" inside the flaperons, but
you solved that worry by testing it on other foam...good show. Sounds
like you've discovered another workable way around the flap film
problem.
Lynn
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On Jun 6, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Jim_and_Lucy Chuk wrote:
| Quote: | Well today I finally got that blasted stuff off!!! I think what
bakes it on is probably light. one side was much worse than the
other on both flaperons. I think I tried just about everything to
loosen it and this is what I found really worked. I read your post
Lynn about the paint stripper so I tried it. I bought a can of
Klean-Strip KS-3 Premium Stripper, it comes in a copper colored
can. Put it on fairly thick and then covered it with some plastic
to keep it from drying out. Left it for an hour or more depending
on what side I was working on. On the easier side, it would come
off in big sheets, on the bad side, I scrapped it with a piece of
wood and the worst bits I used my fingernails. I tried some of the
stripper on a bit of foam from the strut fairing and it didn't seem
to hurt that foam at all so I was a bit less worried about the foam
in the flaperons. When I was done, I washed the flaperons with
soap and water and then rinsed them real well. Bare aluminum never
looked so nice!! Hope this is a help to others, it sure worked for
me. Jim Chuk Avids Kitfox 4 Mn
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Tom Jones
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: removing plastic cover on flaperons |
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Maybe it is timely to remind anyone taking delivery of a new kit. If the flaperons still come coated with stick on plastic, take the plastic off soon!
After storage in the rafters of my shop for six years I had to peel that stuff off a quarter square inch at a time. I couldn't muster the courage to soak them in turpentine. It took days.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: removing plastic cover on flaperons |
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The paint stripp0er really made short work of some very stuck on plastic. Like I said in the earlier post, I tried the stripper on some of the high density yellow foam in the Kitfox 4 flaperons and it wasn't bothered by the stripper, this afternoon I tried the stripper on some regular pink styrofoam and it ate the foam up. I think the older Kitfoxes had blue foam in the flaperons and I think the stripper would eat it so caution is advised. Jim Chuk Avids, Kitfox 4 Mn
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Maybe it is timely to remind anyone taking delivery of a new kit. If the flaperons still come coated with stick on plastic, take the plastic off soon!
After storage in the rafters of my shop for six years I had to peel that stuff off a quarter square inch at a time. I couldn't muster the courage to soak them in turpentine. It took days.
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Tom Jones
Classic IV
503 Rotax, 72 inch Two blade Warp
Ellensburg, WA
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