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Hi,
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This is the tired Tri-Pacer my brother and I bought in 1982.
We converted the gear that winter, slapped on a pair of Madras tips, and squirted another coat of elastized car paint on it. We flew it around for about 10 years like that until I bought him out and decided remove the old and repaint.
When I was removing the old paint I found a lot of rust stains around the tail post and called my A&P/IA friend over for a look. He started in with a razor knife and things got pretty ugly fast.
After all the tubing repairs I took it over to the sand blasters. The repair 337 can be seen here.
I still have these two pieces hanging in my hangar.
My daughter Abby.
I find it easier to cover the bottoms of wings first, especially placing and installing inspection rings.
The fuselage covering pictures should be before the wings and things, but that's the way it is for now.
Just starting the silver coats.
My first, and last time using a presewn bag/envelope for anything.
Painting the interior.
I squirted brown where I wanted a 1/4 inch division between my colors. Next I ran the blue fine line tape exactly where I wanted that change to be.
I painted a plastic model before starting the full size plane. It still loiters under our TV here at home.
Painting the smaller areas next makes for a lot less masking than the trimming color last.
I use vinyl electric tape on the top of the fine line tapes before jumping to masking tape which usually has problems.
Finished with the tan.
Finished painting my shop sometime before doing this Luscombe for a friend.
Also recovered this Schweizer 1-26, but my neighbor, the owner, did the painting.
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