Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

[Rick524]

Where can I buy a buffing wheel dressing tool?

Rick
Sonex 524

[wlarson861]

Harbor Freight or Nuvite

[Bryan Cotton]

Bill,
I'll try the alchohol. Rick, my dressing wheel wore out. Now I cut a triangle out of scrap, about 2" on a side. When all the points are nicely radiused from wear I go at it with the tinsnips again.

[DCASonex]

Thanks for the tip on rubbing alcohol. Was about to do my Spring re-polish and will give that a try. (With hangar door full open so as not to be done in by the fumes.)

David A. Sonex TD, lazy man's polish (all the difficult parts like under side of wings and tail painted.)

[Rick524]

I tried the rubbing alcohol today Bill and it works great! Got it from the drug store....the lady
said they can only sell it one bottle at a time, due to some people drinking it......I guess if
polishing gets REALLY boring.......... :lol:

Rick
Sonex 524

[Bryan Cotton]

Didn't get any alchohol yet, but I only have 3 bays to go on the top skin with F9.

[Bryan Cotton]

Here is pass 2 on the bottom with F9:

I am debating if this is good enough to move onto C. It is the bottom and I don't plan on looking under there anyway. It's like popcorn under the couch - if you don't look it doesn't bother you.

Edit: the hangar door in the background is ~60' away.

[ScottM-Sonex1629]

Bottom skin looks good from here in Ohio!

I did 3 passes of F9 and 2 of C on my right wing skin...and 0 passes of each on my left wing. Can you tell from this picture how many were done?

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks Scott, and no I could not tell.
First pass of F9 on the bottom of the leading edge:

[Bryan Cotton]

We have fallen of our pace. Lots going on. We went camping at Canyon Camp last weekend. It was cold. Must...Remain....Cheerful...


That was not Vealison that Adam was cooking. Could have been, but 1) I am a Boy Scout and B) I was focused on getting the pictures.


Back to the Glory of Polishing. The photo in the photo was Rome, GA and the Bazooka was not real. Good thing.


Here is zero passes as a comparison. I can't say where the picture is. The black helicopters would come. Not just for me, probably all of you reading Sonexbuilders. Our tribe would be wiped out. The RV guys would probably get the blame.