Red and white reflective vinyl

[Hugh Potter]

ring robert horne, Grafityp of any of the suppliers on here, they all sell reflective, you only need an engineering grade,

for your purposes i’m not sure you need it all the be reflective, do you? i’d only make the 10cm marks reflective, you’ll have to cut these, unless you print in which case you can print red onto white reflective.

Hugh

[Jay Austin]

Thanks Hugh

We have made several phone calls to different suppliers and some have said the do the various widths of reflective so I think this will be the route we will need to go down as you’ve suggested.

Thank you again for your suggestions.

Jay

[Robert Lambie]

Jay, im probably missing the obvious mate, but…

what is a measure gauge?
what’s it for that it needs to be reflective?

as has been said, most reputable vinyl suppliers will offer engineering grade reflective.

for conspicuity tape then you will be limited to only a few high end brands.

[Jay Austin]

Road workers use them at night when digging holes they just place them in they only had the red as reflective so it stands out at night and easy to read how deep they are.

Hope that makes sense as it is early in morning and I’m on my phone !!

Thanks again for the help
Jay

[Hugh Potter]

You’d be better buying in 1260 or 630 wide and cutting it yourself, you’ll pay a premium to buy it at 100mm.

I don’t really see the need for reflective on this job, night works are – in general, very well lit from above, for reflective to work the person viewing it needs to be in line with the light source – ie, if you have a light on your head, the film will reflect back, if youre in a car behind the lights it will also bounce light back. If your mate stands with a torch 20ft to your side, only he will see the reflective properties of the material. Overhead lighting will not make reflective stuff reflect to the eye of someone on the floor.

I’m sure you already know that but does the customer? It’s amazing just what people think reflective should do, I use a lot of it for various Purposes and have had every complaint going!

[Jay Austin]

Evening.

Thanks again for the replys I agree with what’s being said but the customer has 100 of these made before and says they work as they want them to and wants the same nothing else !

They have asked us to do 40 to start with then 100 more.

Thanks jay

[Robert Lambie]

Jay i would suggest posting a picture of one of these markers mate, preferably up close.

i am guessing blind here but, from what i have read and as Hugh points out. reflective will have no benefit to a marker viewing up close in the dark.

what i think they will be is markers/indicators where holes have been dug for passing vehicles on site for Safety reasons? if this is the case and they have been buying 100mm wide reflective for marking the posts, ide guess it to be conspicuity tape which is regulation for the roads departments.
any numbers / text on top can be in regular vinyl i would imagine.

you really should get this correct or you quote might be miles out. conspicuity films are much more expensive than regular engineering grade reflective.

[Daniel Warren]

Perhaps in a narrow, deep, shadowed hole it is easier and quicker to count the shiny reflected red segments in low light than it is to count standard coloured sections?

If they have ordered them before, are happy with them, and are after the same thing then I would be inclined to just quote what they have asked for and perhaps suggest the cheaper alternative and do as asked.