Sat 17 March 2007 |
| Had a day inside working on the decal labels for the panel. This is fiddly process and a bit hit and miss but the final result does look quite good. Some various photos to follow: | 
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| One thing that worked well was using an acetate sheet cut out to restrict where the glue went. | 
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| Difficult to see, but only the center 'text' area actually have spray glue on them. | 
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| Some bits needed reprinting. | 
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| We found airing the paper and pigments over the air conditioning helped dry and cool the materials before using them. (Cleco interested as ever!) | 
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| We struggled to get enough heat / pressure into the mylar transfer process and used an iron successfully - I think we might be in a minority here! | 
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| I wasn't very happy with the annunciator labelling, so used some citrus cleaner to lift the bad labels and remade them. Looks better now.... | 
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| Difficult to see from the photo - but everything is labelled up and looks OK. 'Next time' I would powered coat the panel, I would also think seriously about getting them engraved - but it is difficult as you don't know what you need until you need it - and the flexibility of DIY is actractive. Maybe a grey panel with black text would be better - it would definitely be simpler! | 
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