Title: panel placards
Todays part of this obviously didn't take 10 hours, but there was plenty of prep work that all added up. Lindsay Hemann was kind enough to help me lay out all my panel labels. She was able to get everything on a standard 8.5x11 sheet of paper twice over, which is important because when you send it to have it made into dry transfers they charge $110 per sheet, no matter how much or how little it has on it. Thanks Lindsay! Anyway, there isn't much to say about the process. I got a couple of them a little crooked, but for the most part they came out really nice. At some point in the future I may scrape these off and try again, either for aesthetics our out of necessity if they wear out, but for now this will work and looks about a million times better than stick on labels. Interestingly enough, they really didn't want to transfer to the satin clear coat on the instrument panel without significant rubbing on the backing paper. By contrast, the stick placards practically jumped off the sheet to latch onto the plastic stick grip If I were doing this again, I would bite the bullet and do all the placards before installing everything in the panel. It would have been a lot easier to do this with the panel laying flat on the bench and would have been worth the risk of having to change something later.


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