Painted Interior Panels

Moe, Larry, and Curly

John Branchaw did his magic today painting the interior parts.  Philip and I served as meager apprentices.  We started the long day around noon working on parts prep and wrapped up the clear coat by ten pm.

First step was to finish scuffing all the remaining parts, filling in fiberglass chips on the seat back, and placing all panels on racks for painting.  As is always the case with painting, the prep work took about 80% of the time.  Once all the parts were suspended from the paint racks or placed on the paint table we did a final cleaning with wax & grease remover.

Philip scuffing the seat back for primer.

Prep work completed, we began the painting.  First a good coat of epoxy primer, then panted the Chrysler CDM Mineral Gray Metallic paint, and finally a couple of good passes with the clear coat.

Parts hung; Primer application.

 

Wrapping up the clear coat at 10:30pm.

The end result was fantastic.  The Mineral Gray Metallic seems to dynamically shift colors as ones angle changes.  The clear coat went on really smooth and glassy.  On Tuesday we'll stop in to the hangar to see how things are binding and run the buffer over the parts.