• Vinyl

  Vehicle grade vinyl

  Posted by John Malone on 13 October 2013 at 14:38

  HI,

  Yesterday I was approached by a local tradesman who wanted to put his company’s information on the side of his trailer.

  The trailer is paneled with a sort of plastic which has a hammered finish to it, so that vinyl doesn’t stick very well (he showed me that some of the numbers had fallen off and others were peeling).

  I wonder if the answer would be a better quality of vinyl, cast, perhaps, that is more comformable? Alternatively, I thought of cutting stencils from vinyl and painting in the numbers.

  While he was showing me this he showed me the van which he was very pleased with, a mate had done it for only a hundred quid and wasn’t it good? Then he noticed that there was dirt around the phone numbers.

  I suspect that this is the result of the vinyl shrinking away from the adhesive and dirt then collecting on the exposed adhesive. If this is the case, again could it be caused by cheap vinyl, and improved by the use of a better quality vinyl?

  You may guess that I don’t have much experience with vehicles!

  Thanks

  John

  Martin Pearson replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Martin Pearson

  Member

  13 October 2013 at 18:11

  That’s exactly what is happening with the dirty outlines around the graphics, vinyl shrinks which exposes the adhesive & next think you know horrible black rings round everything.
  If you use a decent quality vinyl you won’t have this problem, even a decent polymeric vinyl like 551 will be OK no need to go to the expense of a cast for general work. The difference in price per job is pretty small so I just don’t understand why people would use it in the first place.

  As for the other
  question about the trailer, a picture might help people identify the substrate so a better answer can be given.

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  John Malone

  Member

  13 October 2013 at 18:22

  Thanks, Martin, I’m glad I got it right.

  As to the trailer, I don’t have a photo, or access to the trailer now, but I’ll ask the guy what the stuff is.

  Thanks

  John

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  John Malone

  Member

  24 October 2013 at 15:36

  Well, I’ve emailed him, phoned him and texted him and had no respsonse so I guess this thread is dead! 🙄

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  Martin Pearson

  Member

  25 October 2013 at 06:03

  Probably just a tyre kicker John, not sure why he took the time to go & see you to start with if his mate did suck a good job for pennies.
  Or maybe he had come along to find out what material his mate should be using on the trailer rather than buy the wrong stuff :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

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