[rebel-builders] Painting a ploished aircraft

[Drew Dalgleish]

I can tell you the wrong way is to polish it first. I have some spots on
mine with poor paint adhesion (read big flakes missing) either from not
prepping the bare metal well enough or from silicon contamination. If I was
doing it again I'd rubbing compound first then paint then polish. The metal
needs to be perfectly clean and roughed with a scotchbrite before priming.

At 05:46 PM 8/4/2006 -0800, you wrote:

I really like the shiny look of a polished aircraft with accent paint.

Kind of like

a two tone paint job where one tone is paint and the other is the polished
aluminum.

The question that I have is that in reading up on the subject, I wonder when
you paint it? Before you polish, or after? If I polist first, then the

surface

becomes more slippery and the paint does not adhear as well?

Is this true? How is it normally done, in what sequence?



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