The Group If all goes well, I will be the newest owner of N99997 (1946 C-D w/C-85) this week. I am going to refurbish the aircraft from the spinner to the tail and will include a recover of the wings. Now, I have read the Ceconite manual, the Reynolds manual and some others and they all advertise themselves to be the best and easiest system to use. What I would like to hear are some real recovering adventures/stories and your opinions of the best system to use. Additionally are there any real real good books on recovering? I talked for a while to a fellow instructing at the '98 Sun - Fun covering workshop, and he mentioned a book that was supposed to be great but alas, I saw another pretty airplane and promptly forgot the name, his and the book. It may have been that he wrote it. The current covering is ceconite w/dope and is 8 years on one wing and 12 on the other. I have to do the wing AD and decided that it would be easier to strip the wing, inspect and preserve it and put on new envelopes and accomplish the AD (hole cutting part) to allow for future inspections. The wings have a really lousy paint job in fact so does the whole plane. The logs indicate that the newest covered wing was zinc chromated but the other is not, plus some patches here and there, so figured it would cost more in time and money for strippers and repairs than to strip and replace. Who has the skinny on Strippers? Another question. Has anyone replace the side windows with Lexan instead of plexiglass? Not hard to do and would be less expensive than buying plexiglass from Univair I suppose. Suggestions will be gladly considered. Thanks Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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