Huckster79
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Looking for any wet wing experts out there.
I own a Mooney M20F, for the last year or so. She had sad looking paint. It looks like I'm going to be able to get it to respectable with a lot of Clay Bar work and then a Meguires #7 Soak, where you let the #7 set on the surface for about a day so the paint can soak up the oils that have dried out of it. It's a method I'm learning from an old school car paint guru. But now that the paint is looking far better, I'd still like to buff it out to get a deeper shine before I do a DIY Ceramic on it.
Here is my concern. I just had the wings stripped and resealed and a couple other hack jobs in the tanks redone to the tune of 15 AMUs. My major fuel leak that precipitated the reseal came after I worked on buffing a wing last fall. Now the sealant was 50+ years old so could simply be coincidental, but part of me feels hesitant to send that direct vibration right into the freshly resealed wing. I've had a couple folks think I may be onto something that it could be problematic, and others that say "Well the engine sends out vibrations through the airframe as well". It just seems like a more direct and "high pitched" vibration than an engine vibration coming to the wings.
My buffer is a dual action one from good ol harbor freight. I'd love to get more shine out of the paint and believe I can, but I don't want to do that to the detriment of my tanks... Has anyone else buffed a wet wing to good or bad results?
I own a Mooney M20F, for the last year or so. She had sad looking paint. It looks like I'm going to be able to get it to respectable with a lot of Clay Bar work and then a Meguires #7 Soak, where you let the #7 set on the surface for about a day so the paint can soak up the oils that have dried out of it. It's a method I'm learning from an old school car paint guru. But now that the paint is looking far better, I'd still like to buff it out to get a deeper shine before I do a DIY Ceramic on it.
Here is my concern. I just had the wings stripped and resealed and a couple other hack jobs in the tanks redone to the tune of 15 AMUs. My major fuel leak that precipitated the reseal came after I worked on buffing a wing last fall. Now the sealant was 50+ years old so could simply be coincidental, but part of me feels hesitant to send that direct vibration right into the freshly resealed wing. I've had a couple folks think I may be onto something that it could be problematic, and others that say "Well the engine sends out vibrations through the airframe as well". It just seems like a more direct and "high pitched" vibration than an engine vibration coming to the wings.
My buffer is a dual action one from good ol harbor freight. I'd love to get more shine out of the paint and believe I can, but I don't want to do that to the detriment of my tanks... Has anyone else buffed a wet wing to good or bad results?