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Ben Knapp’s PA/12 Project

mattknapp

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Palmer, Alaska
Seeing how there’s lots of members on here in Anchorage I’m sure some of you knew my brother, Ben Knapp. I finally got his 12 project into a hangar so it can get finished, an I can learn to fly it. My dads helping with it, an he has many years as an A&P/IA, but no experience with 12’s specifically. Lots of questions are coming up already, an I’m hoping this site will be a good resource.

First up, the wings. The plan is to hopefully get a little more life out of the 20yr old Cekonite, an delay recovering with Poly Fiber until I have my own hangar. The paint is PPG’s discontinued DHFS polyurethane. Any recommendations for a paint that will stick to that once it’s lightly sanded?
 

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Try cleaning the old paint with stitts alkaline cleaner before deciding to repaint. Amazing stuff. Most any paint will stick to a well prepared and sanded base finish if you go that route.


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Thanks for the suggestion, we ended up deciding to go for new fabric after all though. Good thing too cause one of the aux tanks had several leaks.
 

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Glad to see you and your dad on Ben’s PA 12 project. You guys did a nice job on the Clipper years ago at the Anderson Lake place. With your dad coaching I know this is going to turn out nice.
Cheers,
Bob
 
Thanks Bob! I’m excited to finally get into all this..I wish I had been more interested in planes/flying as a kid (like Ben was), but atleast I’m learning now! Did you finish the cub you were building?
 
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