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Me laminating with a 1370 cardboard roll
Here is a really cheap answer for all trying to laminate on the cheap.
With a few winds of banner vinyl this roll does the trick. Cost approx imately nothing.
Printed oracal display vinyl onto corflute.
http://www.youtube.com/user/simianwarth … I8lFiXPxy0
And there are some weights inside the tube.
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I would never have thought of trying to do it that way. It seems to work very well and you make it look so easy. Thanks for passing this tip on 😀
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did you know that their is a guy in the background doing exactly the same! 😕
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Is that a glass table? I would imagine you would need a very stable and flat surface to do that with no air bubbles. How much weight is in the roll and what is the roll made from?
Questions, questions!!!!! 😉 😉
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Table 10mm glass toughened
Roll = inner from oracal vinyl. I chose the straightest I could find
Round it wrapped wasted banner vinyl – about 3 meters, glued at end.
Inside it drinks bottles that fit inner diameter filled with water, end to end.
The more weight, the more pressure. -
very good, very clever, very simple, now that you have shown it to us.
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The more rubbery the surface of the roller the better it conforms to a bad table
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quote George Elsmore:did you know that their is a guy in the background doing exactly the same! 😕
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i love how innovative sign makers are when it comes down to finding cost effective ways to carry out tasks like this. excellent Simon, well done mate.
its bizzare when you see something like this because it sparks other ideas in your head… well it has mine! 😀now on a side note, why havent you loaded this on http://www.isigntube.com ???? :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
right, im away to get my rolling pin and off cuts of vinyl now. 😀
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I love seeing how other people tackle some jobs.
Sites like this make life a lot easier as I work on my own and sometimes struggle trying to work out how to overcome some problems like applying large graphics.
I have a workbench 1525mm x 4250mm but am vertically challenged in that I have a problem with my eyes, they are too close to my feet:)
My bench is 1525 because I mainly do window film that comes 1525 wide and if rolling any out to pre cut I need the width and after recently taking the plunge and buying a 1370 wide printer the width is great for trimming prints down etc
Regarding your roll/log you use in the video, where you say its covered in banner material and then glued, where its glued down, does the slightly raised edge cause you any problems applying your vinyl/graphic.
Think I’ll give this a bash but would use the core from a roll of window film as its made from a hard plastic and is hard and smooth(oh er missus)
Well done and thanks for posting.
Bob
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Bob
Obviously this is quick and cheap with some drawbacks.
I had hundreds of corflute signs to do, quickly, so I had to find a better way than flood coating them all.
It works very well for corflute, which is very forgiving material.
The end of the banner vinyl gives no noticable step on corflute.
You could not use this to laminate clear.
But it gets better…
This video was made nearly two years ago.
Since then this has evolved into the following…
A 5 inch steel hydraulic pipe x1500mm machined to a perfect straight and round.
I had soft rubber applied to the outside by a specialist roller company.
Then I had a SOLID steel rod, almost full length, diameter to match the pipe, pushed inside.
The whole thing weighs about 160kg, which is enough pressure to perfectly laminate clear over printed vinyl. As long as it doesnt lose contact with the table.
With a flat glass table, its hard to go wrong. Anything else you take your chances.Cost of roller and steel rod about one thousand of your earth pounds.
Simon.
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