- Prepped and bonded on canopy exterior latch plate using sikaflex. Also filled in a small gap on either side of the skirt.
- Removed all hardware from cockpit to get ready for painting.
- Cleaned cockpit / cabin and taped for painting. The area to be painted is actually very small because I'm focusing on painting areas that are left exposed after the interior panels are installed.
- More cleaning. Protected outside of fuselage from overspray. Carefully wrapped canopy in plastic.
- Like almost all the other metal interior parts the cabin will be painted with Napa 7220 primer then Eastwood 2k clear epoxy.
- I initially tried spraying the floor and the upper parts of the cabin with primer all at once but did not get good results. I decided to do the floor first.
- Cleaned up the overspray with scotch brite pads, cleaned, vacuumed and sprayed the floor with primer then epoxy. I went ahead and sprayed the baggage floor even though it will be covered by carpet.
- Once the floor had cured I taped plastic over it and repeated the process on the upper parts of the cockpit / cabin.
Interior painting complete - now I can start permanently installing systems and wiring!
Upper sections coated with primer and epoxy.
Floor complete. I concentrated on the exposed forward areas since the baggage floor will have carpet.
Cleaned and taped:
All canopy hardware removed:
The tear drop shaped plate got bonded to the canopy:
