August 2, 2008 - Start Polishing Wings

 Drove out to Essex Skypark in the morning to do some work in my hangar.  Got some paint and oil out of there -- the County inspection is coming up and we're not supposed to have any hazmat in there.  In the spring Lynnette and I had taken two minivan loads of junk from the hangar to the dump.  Now I swept out the hangar -- there was so much dirt on the floor, I could have grown crops.  The hangar is really looking good.  It's going to look even better when the RV-7 is in there in a month or two.

It's time to start polishing the wings.  Put the right wing on sawhorses. 

    
Then removed the blue plastic.
    
You only compound/polish a couple of panels at a time.  First I dabbed a fingerprint of G6 compounding agent every three inches.
    
 Then I smeared it around with the circular buffer.  Then went over it with the orbital buffer at low speed setting. 
    
 Here's the circular buffer.  Both it and the Cyclo Model 5 dual head orbital buffer came with the Nuvite kit I bought at Oshkosh last year.  
    
An hour or so later, the wing top surface has been compounded. 
     
 
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