van wrap: plantec holdings ltd

[Micheal Donnellan]

nice work.

how did you go with the hollows in the panels I find them a nuisance

[david freeman]

cheers mate…
the hollows were a bit of a nightmare to be honest especially the ones that were completely covered in vinyl as there was nowhere for the air to escape

[Shane Drew]

quote david freeman:

cheers mate…
the hollows were a bit of a nightmare to be honest especially the ones that were completely covered in vinyl as there was nowhere for the air to escape

You just have to perfect your application mate, thinking ahead as you are applying, taking care not to trap air in the indents or crevices.

You have courses that you can do over there, which we don’t have here unfortunately, so it may pay you to invest in one to ‘see the light’ in the easiest way to avoid those pitfalls you have already experienced.

Good job tho. Well done mate.

[Robert Lambie]

from what i can see, you have done a nice job mate. a van like this is a long shift. sore fingers with all the stretching :lol1:
i did one of these a few weeks ago and completely forgot to "re-heat" an area of recesses once i had it applied the vinyl. :yikes: less said about that the better :worry:
a tip: if you wrap a van with so many recesses, stick a bit of masking tape on all the bits i have taken up to the right temp with my laser temp guage so as not to miss any. lucky for me i caught it very early on and it could be fixed with no real hassle. but miss it, and the customer comes back a few months later and you have major headache.

[david freeman]

thank you for all your kind words and tips
where would i get one of these laser temprature gauges?
as its almost impossible to tell what temp you have heated the vinyl too i found as i worked on it i could sort of tell if the vinyl was too hot or indeed too cold but its not the best method to be honest…..

cheers

dave

oh and yes i did suffer with an extremely sore finger……i couldn,t pick my nose for at least a week…. :lol1:

[Shane Drew]

quote david freeman:

oh and yes i did suffer with an extremely sore finger……i couldn,t pick my nose for at least a week…. :lol1:

erm… too much information david 😕

[Micheal Donnellan]

What sort of temp would you want to bring the vinyl up to?

[Robert Lambie]

this is the sort of thing you are after mate….
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod … &U=strat15

you will find lots of them on the net.

take the temp up to a minimum of 100 degrees i normally go upto around 120. 130.. just to be safe

dont pinpoint heat, you will melt the vinyl surface before actually heating the area. do it with waving motions over an are of around 8 inches, it heats up in no time.

[david freeman]

thanks again for all the tips

[Lynn Normington]

thats a hard van for a first attempt and from what i can see you have done a good job well done and thanks for showing us 😀

Lynn