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Cracking
I know this is the wrong forum to post this in, but its the nearest forum to the problem as the others won’t let me post piccies.
Anyway, I’ve been asked to resurrect a light box. The existing acrylic doesn’t look in bad nick, but I’ve never seen vinyl like pictured below. I’m presuming its what happens to vinyl with age, rather than it being designed that way.
Has anyone had experience with vinyl that looks similar to this? If so, is it worth stripping the existing acrylic, time-wise, or would it be more cost effective to replace the acrylic. The overall sign dimension is 22 feet x 33 inches, so its little on the larger size.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers, Dewi
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dewi its poor vinyl and proberbly south facing and old i would tell the customer the problem and ofer to try and clean one part of the panel then its make your mind up time.
dark colours to the south always use good stuffchris
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Thanks Chris 😀 I figured maybe testing a section of the panel was the way to go, I just didn’t want to start something that would turn out to be a nightmare 😕
So south facing, is that where the sun hits the sign all day long? So the vinyl is in effect, cooked, causing the cracking?
Cheers, Dewi
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it does look like crap vinyl mate, south facing only adds to problems.
the bottom line is poor vinyl.
i bet you have a hell of a time getting that vinyl off too?
also, the perspex areas exposed look like its going off white with the sun. so even when you do strip it, you will see a ghosting of the blue panel. so no matter how well you clean its going to still show the old text when illuminated.
advice would be to save yourself agro and use new stuff, tell him the old stuff used is cheap crap and it needs replacing.
if your buying in perspex get amari or whoever to cut it to size for you as you get a better cleaner cut to slide the panels back in. -
it speeds up the scrinkage my speeeeeeeling is geting worser
chris
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If its going to leave ghosting, as you say, its a whole lot better to get new acrylic for it. It seems pretty pointless to go to all that effort, only to end up with the old signage showing through the new 😕
Thank you for the advice though chaps, I’m going to be able to recognise this type of thing in the future now, so its a great help for quoting and the like. Nice one 😀
Cheers, Dewi
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Can’t help on the tech side, but that pattern is attractive and would be worth a few more close up shots, for texture usage in Photoshop.
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Do take some more shots and send them email to us please, I’ve had an idea! (strange sensation that – and I don’t want to lose it – the idea that is, not the sensation – erm I think I’m starting to waffle so I’d best get off 😉 )
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Have to wait til I’m next out that way Pete, its a good 30 minutes drive from my place 😕 One of those diddy towns, but its another call from the Thomsons Local, so its working at least 😀
What idea is it anyway? Are you planning to convert it to vectors and use it as a background to a sign? If so, already had a play with that today and it looks pretty good… remind me and I’ll whizz the file over.
Cheers, Dewi
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