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Paul Valovich
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 Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: Painting Baffles |
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I am finishing my baffles and have put a primer coat (SEMS Self Etching Grey) on the metal and decided to leave it at that and not paint. Has anyone done this? If so, how did it hold up?
Paul Valovich
RV-8A N192NM
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peterlaurence6(at)gmail.c
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: Painting Baffles |
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There are Rvs at my field that with bare metal baffles. A couple of them are over ten years old and the baffles look fine.
BTW, I retrieved a scrap piece of flap that was in my back yard exposed to the elements(Miami Beach).Buffed it up a bit and and was good as new.
Now, Had that flap been primed and painted without ectching and chromic converting, filliform
corrosion would have been the menu for the day!
Peter Laurence
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Valovich, Paul <pvalovich(at)dcscorp.com (pvalovich(at)dcscorp.com)> wrote:
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I am finishing my baffles and have put a primer coat (SEMS Self Etching Grey) on the metal and decided to leave it at that and not paint. Has anyone done this? If so, how did it hold up?
Paul Valovich
RV-8A N192NM
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PeterHunt1(at)AOL.COM
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: Painting Baffles |
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I too have painted my engine baffles as well as an aluminum plenum I designed. I alodined (sp) first, then used the same primer I used on the fuselage and followed with a finish topcoat (all matching Van's motor mount). Even with all that heat in there, the paint is holding up perfectly after 420 hours. I sometimes show my airplane with the top engine cowling off and painted baffles look so much better than unfinished (and always scratched) aluminum.
Pete in Clearwater
RV-6 - Reserve Grand Champion, Best Metal, Best Low Wing, Outstanding Workmanship and other awards.
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