Возвратимся к началу ветки. Сергей задал вопрос о технике полировки.
Я знаком с владельцем который отполировал свой старенький самолет предварительно очистив его от краски. Использовал материалы Nuvite их технологию. Руководство здесь, правда на английском, но понятно. Там же показаны инструменты и необходимые материалы
http://www.nuvitechemical.com/Company_Literature_PDF/Polishing_clad_Procedures.pdf
http://www.nuvitechemical.com/Company_Literature_PDF/polishing_nonclad.pdf
Ниже дается краткое описание процесса человеком который это делает сейчас..
Прошу прощения за неимением времени на перевод с английского.
The blue plastic left on the skins has little to do with the final look. There are many highly polished airplanes out there that were once painted! I'm sure their pure alclad surfaces disappeared years ago. I elected to polish my 6A using the Nuvite system and learned real quick it is a step by step process using multiple grades of polish. Think of the various grades of Nuvite as sandpaper grits. Even deep scratches can be polished away by starting with a coarser grade of polish such as F9 or F7. Deep scratches existed on my wings through carelessness and also a deep and ramrod straight tooling mark ran the entire length of one skin that was apparently generated by the milling process. A suggested (but not necessarily the only) polishing process starts immediately after you remove the blue plastic. You "reform" the skin's surface with Nuvite Grade C using a 10" or so compound polisher. This grade will also blend out minor scratches. The final polish is Grade S and can be worked using the famous Cyclo polisher. I do not hesitate to mention I would not attempt to polish an airplane strictly by hand. It is still a lot of work made considerably easier with dedicated power tools. After the first polishing, periodically maintaining the shine is a far easier process, more so if the aircraft is hangared.
I initially polished in steps. I'd assign myself a section of airframe to work on a given day. One day the goal would be to polish the flaps, the next day the fuel tanks, then the ailerons, etc. etc.
Just Google in "Nuvite" and you'll soon discover all you need to know about the process and quickly determine if polishing is right for you.
The photo illustrates approximately 1/2 hour work on one half of the right flap. The power tools I mentioned are resting atop the wing.