40 year old enamel

[silflexer]

So here is another goofy question. We have an old airplane that was painted in enamel sometime around 1971-1972. The thing has been inside the entire time, with very little use. The paint is holding up pretty good, but due to the flex in the fabric, there are some spiderwebs in the paint, but not bad. Am I crazy to think that I can put a polish on the stuff? I have been learning to cut and buff on my universal clear painted truck project and have a good handle on using both a flex and a cyclo polisher with the chemical guys basic compounds. Is this a recipe for disaster or do you think I can safely do this without hurting the existing enamel? Yes, I am aware that it just needs repainted, but that takes real money- something we don't have the luxury of right now.

JB

 

[Barry]

It should buff out really nice, try a section you might be surprised how easy. Sounds like this is a Maul and if is practice on the hard sections first and do the fabric part last.
If it is a Maul in that time frame the pant on it was Randoff acrylic good stuff.

 

[silflexer]

Not a maule this time.

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And here is the one I finished last year with universal clear