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Old 26th February 2003 | 03:58
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Blacksheep
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Question Hi-Sol paint

Good stuff colorman, keep it coming.

On the subject of weighing, individual cases vary widely, but adding paint often increases the weight by surprising amounts, as does stripping off excessive layers of earlier paint. The last time we stripped a B767 bare and repainted from scratch, it came out around 500 Kgs lighter - half a ton is certainly significant when you consider that we note all weight changes in excess of 0.1 Kg in the weight and balance record...

What do you think of Hi-Sol or High Solid paints? We don't have a lot of choice these days, as we are being driven in this direction by our suppliers.

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