Leading edges Lear 55...cleaning

[Lear70]

Laugh now.......but it's like that Sam Kenneson joke about "licking the alphabet".

Oh no you didn't... ROFLMFAO!!!

 

[FlierDude]

Save that polishing motion for something else...

 

[Duderino]

Unforturnately there are a lot of jobs that ask there FO's to do this kind of work.

To the original poster, it will not take more than two hours, and especially not six. Diffenently use tape, masking or low tac will both work, and neither will take paint off or leave residue(just don't mash it on the wing). Rolite works great. Use a red shop rag to rub the polish in small circles until it turns black. Then come back with another red rag wipe/polish most of the polish out, then come back with a soft cloth and some water and polish the rest out, even breath hot air on some of the more difficult spots. I usually do one coat fairly well and then another extra carefully. Works great. Use a buffer if you would like, it will not hurt your wing.

One thing about the Lear 55. You will see some triangles on the leading edge. Don't even come near them, leave a huge ugly unpolished square around these things. If you dull the edges of these they can have drastic effects on the stall characterstics. I test pilot at Learjet Dallas told before we went to do full stall test, that if there were any problems, the first place they would look to correct the problem is the triangles.

Good luck

Dude

 

[AAPvtPilot]

Dude,


Thanks for the advice. Did you ever get the info that you were looking for on the GIV?

 

[Duderino]

Just one amount. I would like to hear more advice, but don't know where to look.

Have a good weekend

Dude