Gear leg fairing pin holes

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cjensen
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Gear leg fairing pin holes

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Millions of them. Well, maybe not millions, but lots...

I shot one coat of High-Build primer on them this weekend, and I'm wondering if I sand with 600, then reshoot it, repeat, if that will suffice to fill the pin holes rather than using epoxy filler, waiting for it to dry, repeat...

Thoughts? :?
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Post by painless »

Chad, all my fiberglass was shot with Nason (a Dupont product) prime and fill. If I recall, about 3-4 coats did it. Nary a pin hole in sight.
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Post by Bob Barrett »

Wait until you get to the wheel pants :bang: :bang: I did several coat of a primer with filler and also did some expoxy with micro balloons before that. Nothing was fool proof for me. The painter managed to fill what I didn't get but it was the pits :bang: Best stay away from the ruity beer or any beer when shooting the gear leg fairings etc. Good luck to you in the painting process! The fiber-glass and paint prep were the worst jobs in building my RV-6A.

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I'll have the micro out anyway for the wheel pants to match up the halves...just hoping to save some time with the leg fairings. I'll shoot a couple more coats tomorrow. 8)
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Post by hydroguy2 »

unfortunately, no short cuts when it comes to pinholes.
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Yeah, finding that out today. I've put four coats of high density primer on them today, still have pin holes. So now I'm waiting for some filler to dry so I can sand 'em...then prime again... :bang:
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