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Figure 8
The last cleaning tip I’ll leave you with is
going to make up for all the effort you exerted in
hand-washing and waxing your plane. Aluminum
propeller spinners are some of the toughest things
to keep shiny, and they can really be eye-catching
when polished up just right. Mechanic Kent Felkins
of Oklahoma offers this PIREP on the California
Customs chrome cleaning system (Figure 8 & 9):
“A couple of spinners hadn’t been touched in
three to four years except for washing. I used
the de-oxidizer then buffed with the polish. The
de-oxidizer is the key. After the black residue
came up while polishing, I used a third rag with
corn starch (flour works just as well) and the
shine glowed clean. I didn’t have to rub hard.
It took less than ten minutes per spinner with
rather great results. It took just a small part of
the bottle.”
Figure 10 shows the spinner before and
Figure 11 shows the results after the California
Customs chrome system. The oxidizer and polish
can be purchased at http://www.california
custom.com for a total of $28.
Keep ’em looking pretty and proud because
it’s a Beechcraft, the pride of the piston GA
fleet !
Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11
30 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY MAY 2013