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    Posted by Jean Oakley on August 30, 2018 at 9:10 am

    Hi all i have a fire engine in for repair and for the first time ever the text along to body is cut from 3m 4084 white diamond grade reflective. I dont think My plotter will cut this, so i would be looking to cut in vinyl and place on the material and hand cut it. As i have a frozen shoulder this is not looking promising. Has anyone cut text out of this product before or know of a company that can? The text spans apx 170cm and is 7cm hight in Crille font. Thanks for reading

    Kevin Flowers replied 5 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
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  • David Hammond

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 11:09 am

    Give Chapter 8 Highways a call, they’ll be able to cut it and seal the edges so no water ingress.

    http://www.chapter8highways.co.uk/

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 11:57 am

    Thanks David, ive just emailed them the details hopefully they can help me :claps: :claps:

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 12:25 pm

    Unfortunately they can only cut orilite engineering material which i can cut myself. It has to match what is there now so back to square on i think :shake:

  • David Hammond

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 12:27 pm

    Perhaps try these?

    https://www.chapter8shop.com/

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    August 30, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    Id contacted Bluelite before seeing your post. Ive emailed details and im waiting for them to get back to me. I might try theese aswel as no harm in comparing prices/times thanks for your imput

  • Derek Heron

    Member
    August 31, 2018 at 5:47 am

    hi jean
    have you tried William smith
    they do high viz kits etc and may be able to help
    Derek

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    August 31, 2018 at 1:01 pm
    quote Jean Oakley:

    Hi all i have a fire engine in for repair and for the first time ever the text along to body is cut from 3m 4084 white diamond grade reflective. I dont think My plotter will cut this, so i would be looking to cut in vinyl and place on the material and hand cut it. As i have a frozen shoulder this is not looking promising. Has anyone cut text out of this product before or know of a company that can? The text spans apx 170cm and is 7cm hight in Crille font. Thanks for reading

    Jean
    diamond grade needs edge sealing so you are better to use someone who cuts it all the time rather than hand cutting. I would think as Derek said William Smith i’ve tried others and found smiths to be one of the best

    Kev

  • Jean Oakley

    Member
    August 31, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    Hi All, Ive placed an order with William Smith, they had the material and can cut from my PDF. Only drawback is the text being 70mm high they are unable to seal the edges. I cant worry too much about that as the text thats on the other side was done 11 years ago and was also not sealed. Thanks for everyones imput and have a great weekend

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    August 31, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    Jean
    running a normal vinyl sealing pen around it can help, could be what be done on the otherside as if water seeps behind diamond grade you can see it

    Kev

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