Bald Eagle Aviation

[51fixer]

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]

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]

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]

Dry Ice.

[wls3]

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

Last edited by wls3 on Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[snj-5]

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]

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

[51fixer]

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

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

[Jim MacDonald]

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

Mac

[Django]

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

[Jim Beasley]

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.

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

[CAPFlyer]

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]

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

Does that mean it's warmer there?

[Jim Beasley]

It's always warm when Rich is around

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

Does that mean it's warmer there?

[wwiiaviator]

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