i'm seeing spots

For a couple of day's i've beening running the engine on my Hyper Viper, and i have noticed that the fuel that gets on the wing takes the paint off.Do any of you out there know what I can do to stop this.i don't know if painting something over will help.

Thanks in advance:-)

Finding something to protect the colors without attacking the foam might be the problem.

If the problem is mainly in a small area, a piece of clear packaging tape should protect it. You will only have one chance to get it in the right place.
Pat MacKenzie

One would think that they would of done enough testing to make sure the paint would hold up to fuel with nitro in it!!!! I have always been the one to stick up for Cox/Estes products but after reading the problems that people are having with the Hiper Viper I can only hold my head in shame!

LAST EDITED ON Mar-07-04 AT 05:13 PM (CDT)
 
Well I haven't had any obvious problem running my HV with ~18% nitro. I don't think I have splattered the wing (yet!) with raw fuel, so maybe this might attack the paint.

A lot of paint has problems with high nitro (25%+).

i haven't splashed the airplane with raw fuel, it's just the fuel that comes out of the engine.

Then that is not what I see. My wing (and everthing else was covered with that nice oil/burnt fuel goop, and so far, I didn't see any attack on the colors. I am using a 50-50 mix of 25% nitro (Taff's 1/2 a fuel) and Sig 10% champion. I think both have 20% oil, half of which is castor.

Most burnt fuel is pretty mild since the alcohol is either burnt or still a vapor. The raw fuel is almost like a paint remover (methanol is one of the ingredients in commercial paint removers like BIX, and I think Nitro is also a good solvent).

the fuel that i am using is a variety of diifferent ones, the fuel that i have used the most of is cox fuel, i got it from a friend and it works well with the engine but i can't say so for the paint.