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how do i join panels in deep recesses?
Hi, looking for opinions.
On the wrapping course James said to avoid joining panels through the deep areas of vans. In practice this is proving tricky, what do people reckon to it. It is avoidable on the job I’m doing but it was maybe one (the only one) area of the course that I was unsure of the logic, can anyone explain?
I had a look at a 3m demo of their new material and it showed on the demo them using joins like this.
Does anyone have a contact for James they can PM me and I could maybe had a chat to him about it.
Thanks for any help and advice.
Gavin
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Anyone? An opinion based on nothing… what you’ve done in the past… anything?
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If you use horizontal panels on most vans your seam will be on the flat panel of the van.
If you can’t avoid a seam in a deep recess we’ve been shown a method to put the stretch in the recess of the van in the greatest amount of vinyl you can.
Maybe I’ll do some short demos for this website or youtube.
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This might sound mental…But I’ve had good results from joining on the outside of a convex curve (especially a sharp one).
The light is distorted along a convex curve and it hides overlaps pretty easily. Today we did a wrap that finished on a curve like this…I don’t think I took a close up photo to show you closely (bugger!).
My way of thinking is that the eye is drawn to something on a flat surface that doesn’t look "just right". If it’s on a sharp curve, then your brain tells you "It’s supposed to look weird".Have I had too many beers???
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