[f-AA] Cabin tubing color

[Fred Steadman]

I'd be surprised if the color of tubing on a 40's airplane were 
anything but zinc chromate green.


On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Mark PETERSON wrote:

> I love doing history with Aeronca... just think of all the issues 
> people will have in a hundred years trying to reconstruct this!
> As far as the Champ tubing, I think the best thing would be to watch 
> that "Aeronca, the Plane you'll love to fly" film and see
> what color they were coming off the line.   I've seen Oshkosh winners 
> all with taupe, light brown and black, if I remember rightly.
> My Chief has traces of taupe on the back door tubing, so I can't even 
> be certain it was gl/dove grey all the time either.
>  
>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: cgalley
>> To: aeronca at westmont.edu
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>
>> Drawing is dated 5-13-46
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Mark PETERSON
>>> To: aeronca at westmont.edu
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:03 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>>
>>> OK, so for all those years, B__Z W___R has been selling books that 
>>> call out "dove grey" by mistake!
>>> I have no idea what the difference between dove and glove grey would 
>>> be... maybe a little darker for
>>> glove????
>>>  
>>> Now for some reason, I want to X-ray the document and subject it to 
>>> artistic archeology and see
>>> if the "glove" was at one time "dove", only to be copied over by a 
>>> far sighted scribe who thought dove was
>>> glove and the G was really a fly spot what he made into a G.... the 
>>> fact that the G is off centered to the left makes one
>>> think of scribal error in transmission since the G on the word 
>>> "Grey" is rightly aligned and centered.   Or perhaps he
>>> was saying to himself "gee, I love grey" but missed...<bg>
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: cgalley
>>>> To: aeronca at westmont.edu
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:53 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>>>
>>>> <unknown.jpg>----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: Mark PETERSON
>>>>> To: aeronca at westmont.edu
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:57 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>>>>
>>>>> That's dove grey.... grey Kyron enamel spray paint is the same 
>>>>> battleship grey color.   Remember Aeronca had
>>>>> a lot of army surplus material at it's disposal in 1945 to 1947! 
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: cgalley
>>>>>> To: aeronca at westmont.edu
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:09 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm going out on a limb, drawing 3-596 seems to indicate that 
>>>>>> they are
>>>>>> "glove grey". The cowl area inside from the instrument panel to 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> windshield is listed as the same as the instrument panel color.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BUT 3-596 is a Chief drawing. If some one has #3-553, it might 
>>>>>> have a
>>>>>> different answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many paint the tubes in the windshield area flat black and some 
>>>>>> paint all
>>>>>> the exposed cabin tube the same. YMMV
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Lois Reeves" <lr_jrmed at hotmail.com>
>>>>>> To: <aeronca at westmont.edu>
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:38 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [f-AA] Cabin tubing color
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Got the fuselage primed with Stits this past weekend.  Anyone 
>>>>>> have the
>>>>>> original color
>>>>>> of the exposed cabin tubes??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, Jeff Reeves, 7BCM, Bothell,WA
>>>>>>
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