{"id":295,"date":"2013-09-22T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-09-22T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:34:10","slug":"new-panel-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"New panel update…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in March, I showed the starting process to how I built new edge-lit panels for the F-15.
\nI finally was able to get enough time away from doing 3D printer work to get some panel work done!
\n(The sad thing is, I bought the Rostock MAX to build parts for this and my other projects. Since it arrived I’ve pretty much done nothing but 3D printer oriented stuff…)<\/p>\n

Here’s the new Jet Fuel Starter panels.<\/p>\n

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The new panels are on the left, the old panel is on the right.\u00a0 There’s a few differences between them, but they’re dimensionally identical.\u00a0 The “L” on the far left panel didn’t completely engrave, so I’ll need to touch that up by hand.<\/p>\n

The original JFS panel has three 5V lamps that are embedded in the back of the panel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In order to do any repairs to it, you need to use a motorized tool to grind out the “potting” material in order to reach the lamps and their wiring.\u00a0 I suspect that the potting compound is clear, but I’ve never torn apart a panel to find out.\u00a0 Maybe some time I’ll grab an old commercial airliner panel I have and tear it apart.\u00a0 For Science! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s what the new Nav edge-lit panels look like:<\/p>\n

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This was my first go-round at doing two-color panels.\u00a0 There was some paint bleed and in a few points, masking failure.\u00a0 I’ll touch these up by hand using a magnifying glass and a very fine detail brush.\u00a0 If you didn’t know, the real panel is in the center.<\/p>\n

I’ll post pictures of the other panels when I’ve got them completed.\u00a0 I think there’s only one more to finish – it’s a two-color panel as well and fits on the fire suppression panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in March, I showed the starting process to how I built new edge-lit panels for the F-15. I finally was able to get enough time away from doing 3D printer work to get some panel work done! (The sad thing is, I bought the Rostock MAX to build parts for this and my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}