Finished priming the rest of the fuselage interior.
Primer
Hours this entry: 4.5Tag Archives: Primer
Fuselage Primer
Hours this entry: 4.0
Primered the rear half of the fuse, along with the areas that will be under the floor boards. The fuse can now be moved to hangar and continue to be worked on. Once we get the rest of the components in and set, we’ll remove them, prime the rest and paint the interior.
Just as a side note… we shot the SEM primer with a Harbor Freight HVLP gun. The gun shot fine, but after about 10 minutes the top can started leaking. I loaded the threads up with teflon tape and that solved the issue.
Elevator Part Primering
Hours this entry: 1.0Primered the right Elevator Skin, along with all the stiffeners.
Primer Test
Hours this entry: 1.0I decided to test out the SEM Primer and Prekote on a few of the Horizontal parts before I went ahead with priming all the Horizontal parts. I also couldn’t figure out the best way to keep the Left and Right side parts seperate, so I only took home the easily identifiable parts (like HS810 and HS814) along with the Left side parts (Spar, Ribs, etc).
For the Prekote process, I sprayed the parts liberally and hit them with the scotchbrite pad again. Once that step was complete, I rinsed them with the hose into a bucket. I then took and sprayed Prekote on all parts a second time, and once again rinsed them in the bucket. I let them dry completely and then sprayed them with the SEM Primer. Below is a photo of the parts I tested with the primer.
