Day: August 21, 2011

Because I finished spraying MYRO’s new pod today 😀

I checked the weather forecast last night and light winds were forecast for this morning, so I was up early and raring to go. Got the pod out, wiped it down and then wiped it again with a cloth with some turps on. Then wiped it yet again with a tack rag and I was ready to go.

The red looked delicious in the can – almost good enough to eat – and I mixed up two jars so I didn’t have to stop for too long when the gun ran out. I found it amazingly easy to spray and it went on much easier than I thought it would do. Within an hour or so and another four or five jars later I was finished – and it took me the same again, maybe more, just cleaning everything up because it’s amazing how a colour like bright red travels everywhere 😕

It was only after I’d given it a quick inspection and pulled all the masking off that I noticed that since I’d finished, a few small bubbles had appeared. By that time it was getting on for lunch time and I thought, what the heck, worry about them when I come back and nip down to the flying club and grab something to eat. So that’s what I did. I’ve been a bit cut off at home doing the work on MYRO so it was great seeing a few of the guys again. And it was worth leaving the little bubbles until after I’d got back, because if I’d tried to do anything with them before, I know I’d have ended up messing the pod up and spraying it again. As it was, by the time I got back, the ‘bubbles’ were hard and I was able to lightly rub them with ultra fine wet-and-dry paper and T-Cut them in. In the end, I could hardly see them and the job ended up much better than I’d dared hope before I started. Here are a couple of pics of the finished pod.

I’ve decided that rather than put it back in the garage where it might get scratched, I’ll leave it where it is for a day or so for the paint to harden off. It will eventually be standing outside and I can’t see what harm it can come to. I think the ‘new’ pod now looks much better than MYRO’s old one did after I’d repaired it because the last time I’d avoided respraying it. This time, it’s the respray that ‘makes’ it and looking at it now, it’s hard to believe that MYRO’s lovely shiny new red pod started out as MYFI’s tatty old blue one. I’m very satisfied with it 😉