Cox Corsair canopy

F4D Phantom II Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:02 pm

The canopy on one of my old cox Blue Corsairs has yellowed with use and time. Is there any way that I could remove the yellowing? I tried polishing it but it has not worked. Here is a pic. All help appreciated.
Juan

rsv1cox Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:21 am

You could try one of the headlight lens cleaning/polishing kits, Turtle Wax etc.. I like Mequiars myself but all work well. You will have to manually do it and it might be time consuming.

davidll1984 Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:37 am

try la parisienne bleach into water let sit 30 min just dont put al the plane in just clear part it worked on my cars roof light cover

Levent Suberk Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:48 am

I didn't try but perhaps useful:

Levent Suberk Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:50 am

Perhaps UV light process is better.

F4D Phantom II Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:47 pm

davidll1984 wrote:try la parisienne bleach into water let sit 30 min just dont put al the plane in just clear part it worked on my cars roof light cover

Hello DavidII1984
Thanks for the information. I tried using clorox bleach and it did not work for me. First I tried mixed with water and later pure bleach but I had no luck.
juan

F4D Phantom II Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:50 pm

="Levent Suberk"]Perhaps UV light process is better. [/quote]

Hello Levent
I will be trying what you have suggested tomorrow if it work I have 2 more corsair canopies that I will be cleaning.Thanks.
Juan

Charger67 Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:58 pm

Hi, I Love the Corsair. I'm in need of a Canopy would you have one or know of any for sale. Thanks for your time. Mike

OhBee Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:46 pm

I agree with the headlight lens cleaning kit! If it works as good as it did on my REALLY bad truck headlights,it will surely work great on those canopies. Elbow grease not included!

rsv1cox Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:28 pm

Something about Cox and other plastic airplane canopies, they seem to go missing. I have two Cox Corsairs and one is missing the canopy, the other is blue and therefore not yellowed. Flew one last year, or was it the year before.

This one was missing the canopy from the kit too, but I made one from balsa. Had to be large to contain the receiver.

Great article in the January issue of Air Classics magazine. The cover page Corsair is for sale in the same issue. 3 million $ and change.

dckrsn Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:59 pm

rsv1cox wrote:Something about Cox and other plastic airplane canopies, they seem to go missing. I have two Cox Corsairs and one is missing the canopy, the other is blue and therefore not yellowed. Flew one last year, or was it the year before.

This one was missing the canopy from the kit too, but I made one from balsa. Had to be large to contain the receiver.

That is one sweet looking Corsair, Bob. Wow! bounce

Bob

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