Refurbishing interior and Exterior DA42!!

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Refurbishing interior and Exterior DA42!!

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Hi,

Anyone in this forum know a good place in Europe for refurbishing exterior (paint job) and interior for a DA42?
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Flyboyamin wrote: Tue Apr 18, 2023 5:00 pm Hi,

Anyone in this forum know a good place in Europe for refurbishing exterior (paint job) and interior for a DA42?
How about the factory?
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Agree, I would use DAI Weiner Neustadt. I retrofitted aircon on my DA62 and the job was superb.
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Curious if anyone has painted all white Diamonds in a color that meets the allowable solar absorption number (which is a hard number to pin down)
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Re: Refurbishing interior and Exterior DA42!!

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neema wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 9:39 pm Curious if anyone has painted all white Diamonds in a color that meets the allowable solar absorption number (which is a hard number to pin down)
A previous owner painted the underside of my 2003 DA-40 gray. I don't have a photo handy but here's an old pic from a couple of sales ago that gives you the idea.
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I've always assumed the fact it was only on the underside helped it avoid sun absorption concerns.

One of the maintenance shops I used was freaked out enough about passing it off on annual that they called Diamond Canada in London. They apparently gave the go-ahead because I got my annual signed.

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I had some touchup done at Sunquest at PAE and the owner Brandon was talking about how there were some new paints allowing for this. He had done a couple non-diamond planes IIRC.
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