Bought a house. Out back is a wooden deck which has been painted. To re-paint I will wash and then roll on a paint which matches the type originally put down assuming it is an appropriate type for outdoor decks. So, which type of paint is suitable for wooden (standard 2x4s) outdoor decks...
In my daily work repairing aircraft, I often fine myself wondering how certain hardware stack-ups will be effected by or produce effects on the aircraft in regard to their corrosion properties.
Going through school, we were taught about anodes and cathodes and dissimilar metals and their...
Is there a good time (season, time of day) to put paint on a weather exposed wooden deck?
Its summertime and it seems like a good time of year to paint the deck outside but I'm wondering how the weather (heat, humidity) will effect the curing of the paint. There is already a coat of paint on...
I cannot find any reference to allowable contact of a 1/16" 7X7 steel cable running through a vertical ring lightening hole on a composite fairlead designed to be installed around the lightening hole as protection for the cable.
I realize that in most situations the cable runs fore to aft with...
I recently encountered a situation where an MS20007 bolt was used in conjunction with an MS21043 fiberlock nut. Going off an SS9300 torque chart the bolt was in the 160,000 psi column and the nut in the 125,000 psi column and therefore had very different torques - approx a 200 inlb difference...
I recently encountered a situation where an AN4 bolt was used in conjunction with an MS21043 nylon insert self-locking nut (I think I have that PN correct). The torque chart I was using had the bolt in the 160,000 psi column and the nut in the 125,000 psi column and therefore had very different...
