Chris Martin
Promoted Users
As I get ready to start panting my airplane, I read with interest the postings I could find here about the first cleaning before the sanding, W&G, etc.
Airplanes are a particular breed because the engine will spit oil so the surfaces are contaminated and although mine was not a bad spitter chugging along at 200 mph spreads even the tiniest drops of oil all over the surface. Good initial degreasing is a must. My airplane is primed with SPI Epoxy so that’s probably a good thing but some not so visible areas do have unprimed fiberglass and need to be though roughly degreased.
Any recommendations on what to clean the surfaces with? In the old days the recommendatiion was to use TSP. Chris H mentioned he uses Dawn and it may be good enough but maybe I should use something stronger. I have found Krud Kutter to be pretty good degreaser so that is an option.
Any thoughts?
Chris
Airplanes are a particular breed because the engine will spit oil so the surfaces are contaminated and although mine was not a bad spitter chugging along at 200 mph spreads even the tiniest drops of oil all over the surface. Good initial degreasing is a must. My airplane is primed with SPI Epoxy so that’s probably a good thing but some not so visible areas do have unprimed fiberglass and need to be though roughly degreased.
Any recommendations on what to clean the surfaces with? In the old days the recommendatiion was to use TSP. Chris H mentioned he uses Dawn and it may be good enough but maybe I should use something stronger. I have found Krud Kutter to be pretty good degreaser so that is an option.
Any thoughts?
Chris