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Foam Board in a Light Box Housing
I have an enquiry from a Charity, who have acquired new premises.
The current sign is illuminated, however, they do not wish to have their sign illuminated.
I am planning on replacing the acrylic with 5mm white PVC foam board, and the vinyl applied to that.
I cannot see an issue with doing so, and will certainly keep cost’s down.
I am going to check the thickness of the acrylic, but have a feeling it will be 5mm, and check out how it’s fitted in the frame.
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Not sure if you are asking for advice on this one or not David but I would stay clear of foam for a job like this. Although you would probably be hanging the panels they would still be liable to warp and they will no doubt give you problems over time at the join.
You can get ACM for under £30 a sheet now….I would suggest you look at that before jumping into the foam route
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It is composite that’s up at present.
It is illuminated (lights are on) but has a composite panel? :-s
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David,
Are you sure it is a composite in a light box frame, stencil cut and backed with opal acrylic? It just seems like a waste to put it in an ugly extruded alu frame, instead of making the whole pan and wrap it around…
Anyway, it might be just a block-out vinyl as a background, so it does not illuminate. If this is the case, why not remove the acrylic panels, clean them and apply the new graphics to it? If they do not want the light on, don’t put it on 🙂Robert
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It’s definitely Composite.
It’s got vinyl applied on top of it… it’s confused me.
I’ve attached two pic’s.
First is showing the join in the sign, and where it’s been riveted previously?
Another showing the vinyl… looks like Opal acrylic but it’s not
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Oh, I stand corrected- probably what you have there is a sign reused at least once…
I vote for alu composite as well. Foamex can warp or become brittle and crack- you never know until it is too late 🙂 And the price difference between the two is so little. -
I just assumed it was acrylic from the client said, and made assumption 5mm foam board.
I will be doing this with Composite.
The sign is only 2 colour, and was looking forward to doing it with cut vinyl. I gave the client two quotes, 1 for printed, 1 cut vinyl. They’ve gone for the more expensive printed vinyl.
I explained that each sign is as good as each other, but they wanted to pay for that one.
I shall order a sheet of hoarding panel with it been covered in printed vinyl.
Unless there’s any reason not use the thinner skinned composite?
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