Make your own Placards?

[MisfitSELF]

I have a silly question:  can I make my own placards?  I have a few missing or faded placards around my aircraft and I'm thinking about getting a label machine to handle some of them (like the nose tire inflation psi).  Any legal or "airworthiness" issues with doing this?

Bruce

[MB65E]

No issues! All good! However, It needs to have the exact text that is in the limitations section of the Flight manual. 

-Matt

[Hank]

My A&P wrote the tire pressure in black sharpie on each wheel by the valve. Personally, I find it easy to remember, 30 psi on each. But it's the only plane I take care of . . . .

[Guest tommy123]

You can write placards on masking tape if you want, the verbage must be correct though. 

[Piloto]

I made these with my P-touch PT-2430 PC label maker. 5 years later and they look like new. The label material can withstand constant sun and rain without degradation or peeling off.

José

[xcrmckenna]

6 hours ago, Hank said:

My A&P wrote the tire pressure in black sharpie on each wheel by the valve. Personally, I find it easy to remember, 30 psi on each. But it's the only plane I take care of . . . .

What about 49 on the nose? At least mine is 49

[Hank]

5 hours ago, xcrmckenna said:

What about 49 on the nose? At least mine is 49

F & J, yes; E, I dunno; Cs are 30, 30, 30--you have that heavy fuel injection system!  

[Bob_Belville]

10 minutes ago, Hank said:

F & J, yes; E, I dunno; Cs are 30, 30, 30--you have that heavy fuel injection system!  

M20Es get 30 psi all around as well. I think the added length and weight of the F/J puts more weight on the nose wheel. I don't know about the G which did not get the gross weight bump, in fact I think it went down to 2525 or 2550 from 2575.

 

[xcrmckenna]

5 hours ago, Hank said:

F & J, yes; E, I dunno; Cs are 30, 30, 30--you have that heavy fuel injection system!  

Got ya, I keep trying to put my plane on a diet. But she isn’t having it. 

[carusoam]

Might be growing into an O...

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[MisfitSELF]

So I got one of those P-touch label makers and it seems to work great.  I made a nose tire inflation placard and stuck inside the nose gear doors and I I flew a couple of hours with it (granted only a few minutes with the gear down...).

A pile on question:  I've made placards for my baggage door instructions for AD 88-25-11 (SB M20-239) but I used three separate labels vs one decal (pictured).  Any issue with having 3 separate placards with the same content?

Bruce

 

[Greg252AY]

Duncan aviation in Lincoln NE using a silk screening process that is very fast and looks great. I picked up a $200,000. paint job they did for a Gulfstream 550 and they missed placards all over that airplane. It only took a few hours and like i said the silk screening placards look great. (should for 200k) I am going to look into how to do this on my m20k.

[Bryan]

M20K 252 uses 49psi for the nose, 45psi for the mains. Seems I always have to look it up, need to placard my own! Good idea.

[Andy95W]

3 hours ago, MisfitSELF said:

So I got one of those P-touch label makers and it seems to work great.  I made a nose tire inflation placard and stuck inside the nose gear doors and I I flew a couple of hours with it (granted only a few minutes with the gear down...).

A pile on question:  I've made placards for my baggage door instructions for AD 88-25-11 (SB M20-239) but I used three separate labels vs one decal (pictured).  Any issue with having 3 separate placards with the same content?

Bruce

 

As long as the verbiage is all there, you're good.

I used P-touch placards in mine and they stick and look really good.  I used a very sharp pair of scissors and trimmed them right next too the lettering, they almost look silk-screened.

I think if you trimmed yours right next to the black line, you'll be very happy with the result.

[MisfitSELF]

I plan to trim them, but before I put too much effort in getting them 'perfect', I just wanted to make sure there were no issues with 3 separate placards instead of one.