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<\/a><\/p>\nSo my job this afternoon was to complete the preparation work and give it a coat of finishing. The special aluminium primer that I used had a sort of rubbery feel to it even though I’d left it overnight and it was dry. It did in fact prove to have a rubbery character to it when I started to give it a light rub down and it sort of wouldn’t! It proved to be impossible to completely rub out the brush marks without rubbing it so hard that I would have started to remove it in some areas, around the edges of the gauge holes for example, and as I didn’t want to do that, I had to be content with some remaining slightly visible. This shouldn’t be a problem, though, when it’s installed in the aircraft and fully loaded with gauges.<\/p>\n After giving it a good coat of universal spray primer, I left the panel outside in the sun to dry off. It was very summer-like today with a temperature of 22 degrees Celsius, so while it was out in that drying and hardening a bit, I went off to buy a can of spray satin grey finishing coat. As usual, I went all the way to Montignac and couldn’t find what I wanted and ended up going back in the opposite direction to the smaller Bricojem store in Rouffignac, which is quite a bit closer to my home.<\/p>\n After giving the freshly primed panel a very light rub down with a fine sanding pad, I then gave it a final coat of the satin grey and here’s how it finished up at the end of the afternoon.<\/p>\n I’m very pleased with how it’s turned out and I’m really looking forward to getting on with loading the instruments and gauges into it that I’ve had waiting on one side for what seems like an age. And you never know, I think there’s even a slim chance that I might get everything finished off and installed in the aircraft by this week-end. However, I’m not banking on it and will be content to take one step at a time making sure that nothing goes wrong while I’m doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went across to Malbec this morning and dropped the new instrument panel into 77ASY. And I couldn’t have been more pleased. It fitted so well that you might think that it had been made for the aircraft \ud83d\ude09 Seriously, it fitted perfectly, much better than my original effort. It dropped exactly into the correct … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15044"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15044\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n