Looking for a paint/window shop

[Medflyer]

My F Model Mooney developed a crack on the left side of the windscreen to which my local mechanic stop drilled.  I inquired about replacing the windscreen and it looks like a fairing right in front of the windscreen has to be removed.  The plane has a great paint job but the paint on the fairing has to be destroyed to get to the rivets to be able to remove the windscreen.  Does anyone have a lead on a shop that can take care of replacing the windscreen and repainting the fairing as well?  I live in the Nashville area and a shop in the Atlanta area would work as well.  As a side note, all of my windows have a small crack or two so might as well get them all replaced at the same time.

  Thank you in advance for the responses. 

Bill

[N201MKTurbo]

When I replaced the windscreen on my M20F, my step father helped. He was the most skilled person I ever met with hand tool work, and power tools too BTW. It took him a while, but he removed that strip without damaging it. But he was a unicorn (RIP).

[Medflyer]

13 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

When I replaced the windscreen on my M20F, my step father helped. He was the most skilled person I ever met with hand tool work, and power tools too BTW. It took him a while, but he removed that strip without damaging it. But he was a unicorn (RIP).

Sorry to hear about the loss of you stepfather, men like him are a very rare breed indeed!  

  The paint shop that did the job back in 2018 did a fantastic job of smoothing and painting over the rivets.  I don't think there is another way around removing that fairing without messing up the paint

  

[N201MKTurbo]

Not after they Bondoed the whole thing. That is going to be quite a job to get off.

[WilliamR]

Don Smith at Cartersville, GA Airport (KVPC) did a good job for material paint "touch up" work on my plane. I had a good amount of paint touch up (among other things) needed after Maxwell got a hold of my plane and Smith did a very good job. I can't tell where they blended the old and new paint. Phoenix Air at VPC can also do the maintenance. I had them fix the many discrepancies I had after that Maxwell annual. Phoenix Air coordinated directly with Smith.

Don Smith is the closest to Atlanta that I could think of that is willing to do smaller paint jobs that also has a decent maintenance shop on field. PDK and FTY are the only airports in Atlanta and the maintenance shops there I don't think do great material paint work (more than filling in a chip here and there).

I might be more particular about these things than the average; or so say my friends.

William

[Fritz1]

looks like an awesome paint job, Hawk aircraft in Florida does a fair amount of Mooney work and did the Eagle of a friend of mine with good results, he typically replaces windows with a paint job, in order to have a flawless match you may have to paint the non-white color on the top cowl, he is typically boked 9-12 months out but may be able to squeeze a side job in

[Medflyer]

3 hours ago, Fritz1 said:

looks like an awesome paint job, Hawk aircraft in Florida does a fair amount of Mooney work and did the Eagle of a friend of mine with good results, he typically replaces windows with a paint job, in order to have a flawless match you may have to paint the non-white color on the top cowl, he is typically boked 9-12 months out but may be able to squeeze a side job in

Fritz,

 

  Thank you for the reply and Hawk actually painted the plane back in 2018 and it still looks great!  I did get a quote from them and shopping around a bit in my more local area.  

[Hank]

Check with Joey Cole in Dalton, GA, KDNN. Hes a bit closer to you than Atlanta.