{"id":1703,"date":"2014-05-07T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2014-06-01T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:28:37","slug":"13-2-panel-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/13-2-panel-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"13.2 Panel painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 38 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;ve thought about different finishes for the panel. A couple of builders have gone with a carbon fiber finish. This looks nice but there are a couple of potential issues:\u00a0 1) Getting the fabric to lay perfectly straight can be a challenge. 2) The finish would be glossy. I suppose that I could find a satin finish epoxy. 3) There is no chance for repair or modification. If a hole needs filled, it&#8217;s going to stick out like a sore thumb. With paint, you can either touch up or repaint the panel.<\/p>\n<p>So then the question is, what color? On older aircraft, flat black was common. Newer panels when with gray in either flat or satin finish. I looked around and found a metallic dark iron gray.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the result (with the lower switch panels installed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-05-07-IMG_20140507_094543947-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" alt=\"2014-05-07 IMG_20140507_094543947 (Large)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-05-07-IMG_20140507_094543947-Large-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 38 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I&#8217;ve thought about different finishes for the panel. A couple of builders have gone with a carbon fiber finish. This looks nice but there are a couple of potential issues:\u00a0 1) Getting the fabric to lay perfectly straight can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/13-2-panel-painting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}