Re: [ihc] Coating Traveler top?

["Steven Stegmann" <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel,

This is going to be a fair amount of work.  I wouldn't do it halfway.
You'll just be back in this situation in a couple years.

I'd grind/sand off the paint and the damaged layers of the old top.  If you
wind up taking off some fiberglass cloth I'd replace the layer.  I'd use
1.5oz fg cloth which is used in aircraft work.  You used to be able to get
it from Wickes which is in Illinois.  Wickes pipe organ company is a very
serious supplier of aircraft building supplies.  I have no idea how that
happned.

I'd put the cloth layer on, then some sort of gel coat and then paint it.
Make sure the paint has some sort of UV protection built in.  Your sun out
there will make short work of it otherwise.

Here's the website for wicks aircraft supply
        http://www.wicksaircraft.com/
You really need to read this website before proceeding.

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M Brodsky" <jmbrodsky@domain.elided>
To: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:59 PM
Subject: [ihc] Coating Traveler top?


> Binders,
>       The white paint is now only covering about 50% of the top to my
> Traveler, and the black fiberglass underneath is
> really paying the price beneath the AZ sun.  So, I was thinking of
cleaning
> and sanding/prepping the top and then coating it with white
> elastomeric roof coating (Kool-Kote) to limit the thermal and aural
effects
> of the fiberglass top.
>
> Other options are to intermix steps of Primer, Paint, Gel-Coat, before the
> Kool-Kote.  Since I'm cheap, I want to do this job the best method for the
> best price (judged by me of course), so I am soliciting opinions from my
IH
> brethren.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> JoelB