Hello,
I recently got a wooden prop and I'm interrested to restore it. That a Gipsy Major prop, the varnish is scratched and flakes away.
The hub is varnished wood. It's important to me to keep all the original marking. Is anyway prefered method to remove varnish? What kind of varnish should I use?
The blades are covered with a unknow (for me) kind of cloth (look like a fiberglass layer that extend about 2 inches inboard of the metal leading edge limit and look to be installed under this metal leading edge.) Since I'd like to see full wooden blades but I prefer to keep the prop as authentic as I could so I want to save this feature. Can I sand it and just paint it?
Restoring the decals mean for me to replace them. Where can I find those decals? The remains of the original decals look like RLLCo (Laidlaw Lumber Company) decal I saw in other post.
Thank you for your attention, if my questions are not clean, it may be due to my limited english capacity, just ask me to reformulate.
Merci,
Philippe
I recently got a wooden prop and I'm interrested to restore it. That a Gipsy Major prop, the varnish is scratched and flakes away.
The hub is varnished wood. It's important to me to keep all the original marking. Is anyway prefered method to remove varnish? What kind of varnish should I use?
The blades are covered with a unknow (for me) kind of cloth (look like a fiberglass layer that extend about 2 inches inboard of the metal leading edge limit and look to be installed under this metal leading edge.) Since I'd like to see full wooden blades but I prefer to keep the prop as authentic as I could so I want to save this feature. Can I sand it and just paint it?
Restoring the decals mean for me to replace them. Where can I find those decals? The remains of the original decals look like RLLCo (Laidlaw Lumber Company) decal I saw in other post.
Thank you for your attention, if my questions are not clean, it may be due to my limited english capacity, just ask me to reformulate.
Merci,
Philippe
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