Eze-Kote and carbon Fiber

[Steve Hines]

This is the second plane I have tryed like this. The fuse is at 8.2oz, the fiber and Kote added .6 of a oz. I put on a noise ring and cheek cowl. The wing is at 8.9oz and has not been sanded. I took just a little over a half bottle. 500ml at $20. I put the fiber down with first coat, than second coat and lite sanding with 320, than the third coat. I wet sanded the fuse with 400. I dont know if I needed to put primer on it, I could have sanded a little better, but I allway sand thru things. I have not dope and fiber, but with this stuff you do not get wood grain.

There is no smell with this, and it cleans up with water. I have as much as time in this as I would getting a plane ready for silkspan. You do have to pin down the flaps and small things this does shink some, but after the second coat it is fine. It sands great wet or dry.

I going to put polyspan on the open bays, I have the Eze-dope but have not made up my mind on what im going to use. I have did test panels with this over dope and dope over it and everything works great. Acetone will take it out of a brush after about 3 hours of soaking and cleaning, I not going to say why I tested this.

[Paul Taylor]

Looks Great!!!

So why did you test this?

[SteveMoon]

Where did you get the Eze Kote? Is it a product you can get at
a hobby shop? I do see a pic of a plane on the label.

Thanks, Steve

[Bill Hodges]

Steve:

Horizon Hobby sells the Eze Kote in 17 oz. bottles for $19.99.  Looks interesting.  I might have to give it a try.

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/eze-kote-DLMBD37

Bill Hodges

[SteveMoon]

Thanks Bill

[Paul Taylor]

Found this on the u-tube.

[Steve Hines]

Well Paul after the third brush I tryed to clean it. I used to much dope in my life. I got it from Horizon first, now I just have the hobby shop get it, no shipping. It works great on fiber glass cloth, just like the video on youtube

[Paul Taylor]

Steve
Let us know how it works with the covering.

[dirty dan]

I'd be interested in how secure is the bond. If it's equal to epoxy, good deal. If equal to clear dope, not such a good deal. Well, other than the apparent lack of stink in the shop and/or health issues from years of using dope.

Also betting that this product lifted from a high-volume, non-hobby application. It might be in many hardware stores already.

Dan

[Steven Kientz]

Is there any mention of adding filler(talc?) for open bays on a wing?

Steve

[Steve Hines]

It has a little bit of shrink in it, I tryed it on silkspan. I just put down some polyspan with the eze-dope. I used the dope on a broken wing with silkspan it stick good. It does not get as stiff as real dope, it does shrink good. It does sand a little harded than the Kote, it is not as hard. The eze-kote might be able to be used over the polyspan, I need to do a test wing.

Steve

[john e. holliday]

The stuff looks similar to the poly-crylic paint I have used to put down glass clothe and silk span.   It is a milky color and dries clear.   Fills the wood as well as seals it.   Put down a coat, let dry, sand smooth.   Lay down glass, another coat of poly-crylic.  Let dry and light sanding.   A third coat may make it were it uses very little filler to fill the glass after another sanding  job.  I have done three coats using glass in one day on the smaller planes and very little weight gain.