November 14, 2004

A few days ago, I ordered the FADEC cabin harness kit, with a two light LED health status annunciator. This will be the final thing for the panel Once I get that, I’ll be mounting it, and then figuring out getting the panel painted and labelled.

I have seen places at some of the big shows that can paint your panel with two colours, then laser etch away the top colour leaving the bottom colour to show through. I enquired on the RV-List to see if anybody else out there knew who did it, and I got www.engravers.net out of that. They do it, but looks like a mechanical process, and they require you to paint your own panel. I’d prefer to send it away and have somebody else do all the painting, that way, if the etching doesn’t turn out, then they re-do it, and don’t blame me for the lousy paint varying in thickness.

Another alternative may be to silkscreen the panel. Need to do some research. If anybody has suggestions, please send me an email here. I really want to avoid the stick on labelling of any sort. Another thing I could do is find some Letraset rub down lettering and then I can clear coat over it to protect it. I need to do a test piece to see how this will look.

The panel will be a dark grey colour, to match the outside of the seats. The interior grey matches the centre panels of the seats.