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51fixer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:16 am

bdk wrote:

51fixer wrote:

About 4 feet was unglued from the false spar fwd of the L/H aileron.

Yer gonna loose 5 nots widout dat dere gap seel!

YA YA But da left ving was going vaster and was always showing up befor da right ving

51fixer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:17 am

RyanShort1 wrote:

Nice L-4. If Jim or anyone else up there ever decides to take it for a LONG cross-country to Texas, it's welcome here in San Antonio!

Ryan

Maybe if we can use the Spit as a tow plane.
Rich

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:04 pm

We have been busy with several projects lately-
One of the biggest is the blast cleaning of interior areas of Bald Eagle.
I have decided on going a little different method for blasting.
Jack will give a Pony for the right guess, right Jack?
After photos-

Before pics of inside of the Stress Doors from the bottom of the P-51 wing.

Paint was removed using air pressure and an unnamed media.
No cleaning, vacuuming or wiping was used before I took the after photos.
Now name the blast media used.
Rich

VictorHotel · **Joined:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:46 am **Posts:** 4

Dry Ice.

wls3 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:41 pm

I'll go with what General McAuliffe said at the Battle of the Bulge.

Nuts

Being more specific Walnut shells,

But they take some major clean up though

snj-5 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:46 pm

I was going to say soda blasting, but that should take *some*
kind of clean-up (even if it's just blowing the part clean of
excess media with shop air....).

Bela P. Havasreti

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:10 pm

I'm fresh out of ponys Rich, but they can pet my dog "Chopper" :shock:

51fixer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:51 am

Jack Cook wrote:

I'm fresh out of ponys Rich, but they can pet my dog "Chopper" :shock:

Jack,
Send Chopper over to VictorHotel.
1st guess so I'm making them too easy.
Rich

Jim MacDonald · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:45 am

I second the Dry Ice. Glad I'm not the first, VictorHotel is more than welcome to "Chopper".

Mac

Django · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:35 am

How did the dry ice work? I've never heard of that method before.

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:37 am

it sublimates once it hits the paint and all that remains are the paint and dirt remnants. Pretty cool and unimaginably noisy. We also now have a hole in the ozone over our hangar.

Django wrote:

How did the dry ice work? I've never heard of that method before.

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:05 am

Hehe, wonder what the EPA would have said about your efforts had they known now that they have decided they can regulate how much we breath...

Airplanejunkie · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:58 pm

Jim Beasley wrote:

We also now have a hole in the ozone over our hangar.

Does that mean it's warmer there?

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:07 pm

It's always warm when Rich is around

Airplanejunkie wrote:

Jim Beasley wrote:

We also now have a hole in the ozone over our hangar.

Does that mean it's warmer there?

wwiiaviator · **Posted:** Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:06 pm

Thanks for the before and after pictures.

I have seen Dry Ice removal methods and it is a pretty remarkable. The paint really flies off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9nITRz--0

Ryan

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