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Kents RV-10 Construction Site
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Date: 6-24-2007
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: 6-4-5
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Brief Description: Vertical Stabilizer Priming
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Primed the parts. This was my first time using the Chicago Electric HVLP sprayer I picked up at Harbor Freight. I'm not sure how other guns work that hook up to a compressor, but the compressor on this guy puts out a LOT of air. I first tried laying the skeleton parts out on sheets of newspaper laid on a sheet of plywood, but the air from the gun was blowing everything all over the place. There is no adjustment of the air volume that I can find on the sprayer nor any mention of this in the instructions. I finally gave up on the newspapers and just laid the pieces on the plywood. This worked out quite well, you have to walk around the plywood to hit the pieces from every angle, I later saw I had poor coverage on a few spots. this was hard to see at the time as my lighting is far from optimal. I also got a couple of minor runs on the skin, no one will ever see them. Strung up a piece of .041 safety wire as a 'clothesline' and used other little pieces to make hooks to hang the parts with.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with my first try at priming. It took more primer than I thought it would to do everything, so I had to mix two batches. The Akzo Nobel data sheet (or maybe it's on the can) mentions a 30 minute activation time (I think that's what it was called) so I interpret that to mean that you should wait that long before using. The pot life is at least eight hours, so no hurry to use it up once mixed. It dries reasonably fast, the quoted time is 15 min to tack-free but it took a little longer than that. The pieces could then be turned over and the other side primed, then hung up again.
Pictures: DSC03449 to DSC03451
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