denverpilot
Tied Down
Not mine, the airplane’s. Ugh that’s so much work. But satisfying.
Noticed some paint blistering and peeling from leakage from the silly Cessna battery box drain. Guess we are going to have to get after that.
Understanding it always depends on the damage level, what’s the “typical” fix for that, oh wise maintenance people?
Clean off any more blistering paint, stop/neutralize any more acid of course, and then what? Do folks usually just have a little area stripped and primered and painted like a car, or...
How about areas around rivets? I see a little paint damage near a few. Hopefully superficial and not messing with the rivets. Nothing looked awful but there’s some exposed aluminum right behind the battery drain and little dribbles further aft.
(Guess I should clean the belly more often to see these things but that’s not going to happen, so, here we are.
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Just curious what the PoA crowd says. Obviously we’ll also consult our friendly neighborhood A&Ps also.
Just figured it was worth asking what’s usually “up” with damage behind the stupidly placed battery box drain. (Since it’s right on a rivet line. Brilliant, Cessna.)
Anyway. Belly is clean, Nate is dirty, and it was more fun than working on the cars, which also need some stuff done.
Also cleaned the slow incessant nose strut leak crud off of the nosegear arms and that area. It’d been a couple of years and that was just nasty. It never seems to get bad enough to need to rebuild the strut but man does the fluid slowly make a freaking sticky black mess.
We have a little nosewheel wobble and the plane will probably go into the shop to figure out if it’s nosewheel balance or whatever, so I figured the mechanic would prefer to be able to actually SEE the linkage and all that instead of a black covered mess.
Which then led to... well, while I’m under here and already dirty...
Now she’s ready for a proper bath and wax job. This was just getting the major belly grime off. Which is always a nasty chore.
Noticed some paint blistering and peeling from leakage from the silly Cessna battery box drain. Guess we are going to have to get after that.
Understanding it always depends on the damage level, what’s the “typical” fix for that, oh wise maintenance people?
Clean off any more blistering paint, stop/neutralize any more acid of course, and then what? Do folks usually just have a little area stripped and primered and painted like a car, or...
How about areas around rivets? I see a little paint damage near a few. Hopefully superficial and not messing with the rivets. Nothing looked awful but there’s some exposed aluminum right behind the battery drain and little dribbles further aft.
(Guess I should clean the belly more often to see these things but that’s not going to happen, so, here we are.
) Just curious what the PoA crowd says. Obviously we’ll also consult our friendly neighborhood A&Ps also.
Just figured it was worth asking what’s usually “up” with damage behind the stupidly placed battery box drain. (Since it’s right on a rivet line. Brilliant, Cessna.)
Anyway. Belly is clean, Nate is dirty, and it was more fun than working on the cars, which also need some stuff done.
Also cleaned the slow incessant nose strut leak crud off of the nosegear arms and that area. It’d been a couple of years and that was just nasty. It never seems to get bad enough to need to rebuild the strut but man does the fluid slowly make a freaking sticky black mess.
We have a little nosewheel wobble and the plane will probably go into the shop to figure out if it’s nosewheel balance or whatever, so I figured the mechanic would prefer to be able to actually SEE the linkage and all that instead of a black covered mess.
Which then led to... well, while I’m under here and already dirty...
Now she’s ready for a proper bath and wax job. This was just getting the major belly grime off. Which is always a nasty chore.
