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N601RT
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: What i did on my summer vacation, OR New paint |
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After flying 550 hours during the last 3+ years without paint on my plane, it finally looks finished. On Sat 7/1/06, I flew to Lake California [Lake California is near Redding, Ca] and was greeted by several friends. Before flying to Lake Ca, I did a bunch of prep work which started with cleaning the entire airframe with alcohol. Other prep included wiring the plane for a wig-wag (alternating flasher), making a landing light lens for the right wing, making an additional small rib to support the landing light mount, modifying the Zenair muffler so the exhaust exits just behind the firewall and is pointed rearward instead of downward, making initial fiberglass part to update the bottom of the lower cowl to compliment the modified exhaust.
When I arrived, my friend Larry and I started working on the plane. Clean with alcohol, clean with detergent, repeat several times. Also body work to remove “flaws” from construction and small “wear and tear irregularities” from the past. Larry’s work for the body work was amazing. I also took the opportunity to repair/replace the strobe power supply and install a modified “Duck Works” (http://www.romeolima.com/Duckworks/RVLightKits/rvlightkits.htm ) landing light in the right wing to compliment the one in the left wing. I replaced the capacator in the strobe power supply, but that did not fix the power supply.
“We” used a 2 part PPG Shopline epoxy primer and three part PPG Shopline acrylic paint. Larry did all the spraying. The dark horizontal stripe is purple. The red is a very close match to the red in the Arplast propeller. I flew back to Oregon on Sunday, 7/9/06.
One of the attached pictures is N601RT just after painting. The other is N601RT and N601LG.
See you at Oshkosh. I expect to arrive Monday and leave Friday.
Regards,
Roy
N601RT: CH601HDS, nose gear, Rotax 912ULS, Arplast PV-50, All electric, IFR equipped, 562hrs, 674 landings
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frank.hinde(at)hp.com
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: What i did on my summer vacation, OR New paint |
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Nice Job Roy she looks very smart!
Frank
HDS sold
RV7A..about to go to the airport.
Do not archive
One of the attached pictures is N601RT just after painting. The other is
N601RT and N601LG.
See you at Oshkosh. I expect to arrive Monday and leave Friday.
Regards,
Roy
N601RT: CH601HDS, nose gear, Rotax 912ULS, Arplast PV-50, All electric,
IFR equipped, 562hrs, 674 landings
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