| Boy, will I be glad when this is over! It seems like I've been working on this cowl for months! !st thing today, I mixed up a small |
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| amount of smooth prime and painted it on the cowl in small sections, and then used a credit card to squeege the mixture into the |
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| pinholes and voids. I went over the entire lower cowl this way. I painted the front of the cowl with the remaining mixture as this is |
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| the place that tends to get sanded through due to all of the compound curves and edges. the credit card trck turned out to work |
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| VERY well, there were virtually no pinholes detected when I sprayed the 1st major Heavy coat. I let that set up for several |
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| minutes and then went back out and sprayed another heavy coat. I was hoping that by putting on two heavy coats that I would |
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| not have to recoat after sanding but.... I started out sanding w/ 220 grit, hoping that would eliminate the need for recoating, but I |
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| found some spots that were going to need recoating anyway, so I switched to 100 grit and sanded the entire lower cowl. The |
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| front around the Ram air intake and the cooling intake rings and spinner ring were difficult due to the narrow amount of room and |
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| my fat fingers. I'm debating respraying, and thing that I will use the paint brush again and only recoat those areas where it's |
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| needed. We'll lsee how it feel about it in the am. |
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