Will it melt? Suggestions?

[efwd]

In my SS7 all those little plastic guides for the rudder cables are easy enough to remove and replace later. Costs about $4 in hose. Wood ribs in the vertical, who knows if those will be available when my plane will need this kind of work but they are easy enough to fabricate if you carefully remove them. Possibly you will be able to re-use them I suppose. Epoxy primer is totally easy as well.
Eddie

[Esser]

I would say drill out the tubes later and replace them. It's a super easy job to install them and only takes a few minutes.

For the tail, have the horz stab, rudder, and elevator sand blasted and use epoxy primer, have the rest powder coated is what I would do. But for the vert stab, removing I would say remove the ribs and order new ones from kitfox. Removing hysol is a PITA and the ribs wont look great when you are done...however, if you went slowly, you could probably sand and reuse them.

Just my .02

[Av8r3400]

When I did the Mangy, the cost to have the airframe and other parts sandblasted and powder coated was far less than the cost of the epoxy primer alone.

I drilled out the rivets and removed the push tube then the plastic bearing comes right out. The small sleeves that the cables run through is just nylon tubing. Put a pliers on it and give it a twist to break loose what ever "glue" was used and remove them.

The ribs are a different story. I made my own to put in, because the plane didn't have any originally. I made just a simple teardrop shape and cut them out with a bandsaw.

[tracstarr]

Well, I'm surprised with the success of heating the hysol. I think I've managed to save the ribs, but we'll see after a little cleanup.

Will attempt drilling out the rivets today. Then off to blasting and painting.