Several manufacturers of aluminum bicycles have also tried clear coating. They all got smart and left them bare or painted them. Clearcoat truly does not stick to aluminum. Unfortunately, I also see why we would want a good clear coat on our airstreams; it only takes 10 minutes to polish a bike!

Dan burwink@fuse.net
-----Original Message-----
From: James Weston
To: airstream@airstream.net
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: [airstream] RE: Clearcoat coming off

>I see you have found archive article on the Plastic coat, problem being it
>has probably changed several times since . Seems like no one understands
>what I am trying to say here . Aluminum does not like coatings of any kind
>Leave it bare, keep it clean last longer than you or me. Nothing is safe in
>the environment we live in , sad fact is its only going to get worse . Once
>in Texas I Washed a T-6 Aircraft with the tap water, the water etched the
>skin to white with lines took me 10 hours of cutting to remove the stuff.
>Think about the History of said Coatings, Deal with facts not fiction.
>
>
>JW