can i make paint masks from ordinary vinyl?

[Chris Wool]

its the removable they will be interested in phill.

i supply quite a bit done with Matt exhibition stuff

chris

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I usually use Oramask.
Two weeks ago I was cutting mask for my friend Jeremy, who is a pinstriper. He was lettering his vehicle.
Anyway, I ran out of the Oramask.
So I cut the rest of it with Oracal 651.
He sprayed with House of Color, a pretty ‘hot" paint.
He used metal flake and kandy.
And he actually preferred using the vinyl as it left him with a crisper look.
Love….Jill

[Mike Robson]

Only experience I had was for spraying stencils on some shipping crates.
Could get 2 stencils out of 1 mask if careful, but too much paint and they messed up. Might work better on something that the vinyl would actually stick to – rough wood doesn’t give the best surface for adhesion

[Fred McLean]

Have been supplying a shotblasting company for years with any vinyl going and they’ve been happy enough.
But just lately they want removable vinyl!seems the foreman spoke to the guys who use them and they said the permanent vinyl was okay but not great at coming off after painting but they just put up with it 😕
They seem a lot happier with the removable though 😀

[John & Dawn Roddick]

We use the Oramask but Europoint will only sell in 50m rolls (no idea why)

Dawn

[Mike Grant]

I always use up my old vinyl for spray masks.
If you are using a cellulose type of base with a strong thinner base just be careful you don’t spray to heavily and there is a knack to time the pulling off of the vinyl before the paint has hardened to far. Best to do it about 10 mins after spraying or if left too long it will flake off the vinyl then you have the added hassle of getting all the bits off you and the sign. Pull it off too soon and you may leave glue behind.