I have not had a chance to respond to your e-mails, but I'll get there!
Evan, we managed to get the coating that you recommended for the plug. We tried several places and between only selling the paint in 5l tins at R1600.00 we finally managed to get a litre. I hope it is the correct one! the trade name is SIGMAGUARD HS which is described as a two component high solids polyamine cured epoxy coating and comes in a green grey colour.
The curing times seem to be a bit of an issue as it is described as 20 hours min between coats and 10 days for final cure.....
That means we will only cast our moulds in January......
Vic has given up on us and has proceeded to build a fuse out of balsa. (He has the time and it's his preferred building technique anyway) It may be a blessing in disguise as we can use the prototype to iron out all the gremlins. We'll post some pictures as he progresses.
Meanwhile Daron and I can dream about our future composite plane and colour schemes whilst we wait!
Mmmmm Daron likes black and yellow....
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Perhaps it's something to do with living in PE???? But here is Gauteng we can normally get anything pretty easily. I get my paint form an automotive paint supplier in small quantities. Sometimes only 250ml at a time. The HS primer I use comes in 1 Lt and doesn't have a very long drying time at all. In fact it dries very quickly. It's described as a HS (High Solid) Primer and is grey. There is also the MS (Medium Solid) Primer which is yellow and also works very well.
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