Cabin clean up, continued.

[rrodriguzzi1]

Clean up, treat, prime and sealing inboard side of fuel tank leak/ seepage. I will do the tanks later this year. The seepage/leak inside the cabin looking good after a few months with full tanks. AkzoNobel fluid resistant primer. The wire off the sending unit will be replaced too. 

Edited October 16, 2022 by rrodriguzzi1
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[N201MKTurbo]

Nice work, your airplane will love you.

[AnAngryGoose]

Very nice work!

What did you use to remove any existing rust or other things? Also what primer did you use? I'll be doing the same soon and it'd be nice to know what others used.

[carusoam]

Since you was in there…

There are two blocks… Gear up and gear down lock blocks…

Check their hole shapes…

They are born with a perfectly round cylindrical hole to hold the gear handle….

After thousands of hours of use and decades on the ground…. The round hole becomes mis-shapen….

 

PP thoughts shared…

Best regards,

-a-

[rrodriguzzi1]

Hello, 

They are new. Thanks 

[0TreeLemur]

If you haven't already done both sides, applying sealant on the exterior wall of a tank will not help seal the tank.   It will just make the leaky spot harder to find as the fluid migrates beneath the sealant and emerges somewhere else.  It also makes maintenance more difficult.

Aside from the tubular steel frame which requires painting for corrosion control, it seems to me that the unpainted surfaces of the interior need not be painted.   Unnecessary paint reduces your UL.

[Steve65E-NC]

What surface treatment, primer did you use on interior Aluminum surfaces.  Seems like everything that I might want to use comes in gallon quantities for several hundred $. 

[Igor_U]

Great work. your plane is ready for another 55 years!!

[rrodriguzzi1]

More progress. Not much, but still progress. 

[jetdriven]

On 10/25/2022 at 6:59 PM, Igor_U said:

Great work. your plane is ready for another 55 years!!

That’s what I was thinking if that plane made it with unpainted and unprimed aluminum for 65 years it’s good for another hundred now ! 

[M20F-1968]

On 10/22/2022 at 10:33 AM, Steve65E-NC said:

What surface treatment, primer did you use on interior Aluminum surfaces.  Seems like everything that I might want to use comes in gallon quantities for several hundred $. 

Use an epoxy 2-part primer and/or paint.  It is more expensive, but worth the price.  It stays where you put it, and is more durable.  Clean well before applying.

John Breda

[rrodriguzzi1]

Hello,

Bonderite CIC33, 79, M-CR 1200, AkzoNobel Epoxy paint and primers. It's expensive, but its really good stuff. And I know, it will be nice if you could buy this product in smaller amounts.