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  what your hints and tips for joining two pieces of vinyl?

  Posted by Kenny Ramsey on 21 September 2007 at 18:12

  Hi all

  In the interests of improvement, I thought I’d ask what your hints and tips are for joining to pieces of vinyl.

  I usually cut the stripe/text with a 5mm overlap then just lay it on. It’s not invisible but it doesn’t look bad.

  Am I missing a trick here?

  Thanks
  Kenny 😀

  David Rogers replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alistair Richards

  Member

  22 September 2007 at 08:00

  An alternative would be to butt the joins, and then put a thin 5mm strip of vinyl on top. 😀

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  David Rogers

  Member

  22 September 2007 at 17:57

  quote Alistair Richards:

  An alternative would be to butt the joins, and then put a thin 5mm strip of vinyl on top. 😀

  But that can sometimes ‘migrate’ crooked as the vinyl shrinks back (ALL PVC vinyl shrink slightly) & split / raise edges.

  A 2 to 3mm overlap is my normal procedure – with the TOP section being over the bottom if the split is horizontal.

  Dave

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