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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Miotch on May 03, 2023, 07:26:55 AM
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Getting ready to paint the biplane and was thinking about using Rustoleum because I'm still dedicated to building this without spending any money. So, I was looking through the shed yesterday and ran across my stash of dope. I think this will be enough white for the basecoat. It's forever-shrinking Supercoat, but I used Polycrylic, so the silkspan isn't quite as tight as it normally is anyway. Ten years from now, I may have wished I spent money on something else. But it's rare a plane of mine survives my piloting skills that long.
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... It's forever-shrinking Supercoat, ...
I really wonder what Glen Sig was thinking with the brand names.
Litecoat is clear, and non-tautening to the extent that dope ever is non-tautening.
Supercoat clear is tautening.
Supercoat colors are non-tautening.
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I really wonder what Glen Sig was thinking with the brand names.
Litecoat is clear, and non-tautening to the extent that dope ever is non-tautening.
Supercoat clear is tautening.
Supercoat colors are non-tautening.
Wow !! Thanks for that info. I had no earthly idea. Well, wife is out of town for a week and I have this, thinner, a compressor and hvlp gun ready. Unfortunately, I have that pesky step of "sanding" to do on a lot of the plane. This is the point where I realize I'll never have a 20 pointer. Or a 2 pointer. I lose patience about this point.
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I really wonder what Glen Sig was thinking with the brand names.
Litecoat is clear, and non-tautening to the extent that dope ever is non-tautening.
Supercoat clear is tautening.
Supercoat colors are non-tautening.
In talking with Gretz and the others at SIG, and as per their catalogs, all SIG colors were mixed with a low shrink base. That has been my experience with it. As a hedge against shrinking , Dave Brown still produces Flex-All but you have to purchase it direct. Or you can try the old fashion method of putting a table spoon of medicinal castor oil in a quart of thinned dope as a plasticizer. A chemical called TCP, tri-cesel-phosphate I think it is, is what manufacturers use but it's whicked stuff and don't know how easy it is to get.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee