Im not certain I recall correctly but I would verify that you can mix product lines. Ranthane and Poly Tone primer.
Im not certain I recall correctly but I would verify that you can mix product lines. Ranthane and Poly Tone primer.
Eddie Forward
Flying
SS7, 912iS, Garmin G3X
Thanks Eddie, I was told at the poly fiber class that ranthane can go over polyfiber products but I will double check with consolidated just in case. I was told it was easier to shoot than aerothane.
Confirmed by Waldo at consolidated that ranthane can be painted over polytone and polyfiber primer.
The Poly Fiber manual overestimates how much stuff you need in the table. Depending on your scheme's distribution of colors, you probably only need 3-4 gallons of Ranthane or Aerothane. Maybe even Two gallons and a quart for trim if you're really good at spraying it. I think I used about 2.5 gal total across two colors, but I bought 4 gallons. I have a lot of paint left in the second cans of each of my two main colors. One quart was plenty for all my blue trim.
--Brian
Flying - S7SS
Did you use a white base coat?
Joe,
Noticed your post on the issue.
FWIW - when our Kitfox was painted, I was lucky enough to have a local poly-fiber guy close by with much experience. His take on the white under coat was this - If the final color is white aerothane, a person does not need to use anything between the gray and the white aerothane; and, if a person is using another top coat color (yellow in our case) the area under the color should be given a coat of polytone white. The white polytone can go under either a both a color coat of polytone or color coat of aerothane just fine. At the time, Ranthane wasn't around so the suitability of white polytone under Ranthane was not discussed at the time with the Polyfiber rep.
Some experimenting before applying the yellow to the plane (used some old car panels) made it real clear that the yellow aerothane over the gray looks quite a bit different (Much darker) than yellow aerothane over white polytone. Quite a bit of light penetrates the color coats other than white. A quart of polytone goes a long way; and, I found that a quart was sufficient to undercoat all areas that were to be painted yellow. Areas to be painted white aerothane were just left gray with a little overlap of the white polytone. Most of the colors other than white are somewhat transparent and reflect off the basecoat. White reflects almost everything and light does not reflect off the basecoat if white is in between.
Dave S
Kitfox 7 Trigear (Flying since 2009)
912ULS Warp Drive
St Paul, MN