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3M 85 series controltac advice
We are just doing a colour change wrap with the above material and possibly having an issue but the experts may put me right.
In places the adhesive is completely separating from the vinyl. So I just did the panel next to the sliding door (as we are joining here) and when we trimmed the excess vinyl that fell on the sliding door and removed, it left patches of adhesive on the vehicle. Where this happened it came away completely with no tac at all left on the vinyl. As this is a pressure sensitive material and that area was not even squeegeed this seems pretty strange to me?
I’m wondering if anyone has seen this before and can offer any advise? Is it a serious issue or a characteristic of the material? I’ve contacted our supplier to let them know and have it logged on the account.
Thanks for any help, pretty nervous about the lifespan of the wrap!
G
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I’m thinking you have a faulty roll mate. It shouldn’t come away from the vinyl like that, not in my experience anyway. We don’t have series 85 here in oz, but I use 3M controltac exclusively , and I don’t recall ever having that issue. Is it a removable or permanent adhesive on the series? doing it dry I assume?
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Hi shane, yeah its the standard colour change material here, meant for cars but after a post by Andy gamble I’m using it on a van. All dry, only happening in sections, really hope its not going to fail, in almost finished it!
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quote Gavin MacMillan:Hi shane, yeah its the standard colour change material here, meant for cars but after a post by Andy gamble I’m using it on a van. All dry, only happening in sections, really hope its not going to fail, in almost finished it!
GHi Gavin
Sorry but I’ve only just returned from Sign and Digital so not seen your post till now.
Can I ask did it come from us or Spandex? You mention you have spoken to your supplier and if it was our office then there’s ever chance your smiths rep has a request from the office to contact you but we won’t be back infront of our systems till tomorrow.
Andrew Gamble was also with us at the NEC.Shanes the 85 series is a permeant adhesive and I gotta say the matt black is one of our biggest movers.
Gill
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Hi Gill, the material came from Spandex. They are contacting 3M so we are just waiting on a response. A bit worrying but not much we can do!
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Interesting that you get 3M from Spandex. 3M pulled the pin on spandex selling 3M products in Oz. Apparently they were allegedly taking 3M enquiries and talking the clients into Avery instead.
I’d be interested in the outcome of this.
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3M have been made aware of the situation and Spandex have logged it on our account. This was all I wanted for the moment, they offered to send out additional material but unless we actually have a failure there is no point. Ideally we would have stopped and waited for an answer but as always we had tight deadlines to meet.
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