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Vehicle Signage: Energetix
Before and after.
Very dirty and a lot of prep work involved in stripping and cleaning the surface. It was a tone of fun but now I need a really good body massage.
To give you some indication of size it measures 3 metres (nearly) by 1.2 metres the actual new signage we put up.
You can see the welds in the tanker we had to go over. Still have to do the doors. We did both sides of this tanker. Will get more pics tomorrow when we do some more work on site.
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So how did you end up doing the graphics in the end for this one? I remember you asking some questions about how to tackle it !!!!!
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Hey martin,
We didn’t end up wrapping the back part of the tanker. That was my main question. The other questions were related to the tray trucks which were doing hopefully tomorrow. Will show you the outcome of that when its done.
This signage on the side is Avery Supercast 900 and I flood coated the black and grey in three sections. One for the black and two for the grey. Heat gun over where the welds are on the tanker. Wet cloth and pressed down. Made a few holes to let the air escape and water (it rained on me on the Saturday).
Cheers
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well done Jason. By holes I hope you mean ‘pin’ holes? 😛
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Shane, I was thinking the same thing after reading Jasons post :lol1: If the truck suddenly disappears it will because it has fell in one of the black holes on the side!!!!!
Jason why a damp cloth? You would probably have been better off using a felt squeegee. Must be quite difficult for you guys to do work like this out in the open air, if its not raining I would imagine it is fairly hot which doesn’t help when you are trying to floodcoat a large area.
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Lol yes pin holes of course. I actually use a rounded felt squeegee. But I find for going right into the welds a wet clothes works better. Having it wet lets it slide without catching to much onto the vinyl and giving me little creases. Using a cloth I can also fold it a few times to get the vinyl right into the weld. I will take a close up of the welds tomorrow. You’ll see they are rather thick welds that aren’t very smooth.
Also one side of this truck was applied wet thanks to the weather. This caused havoc with some water getting trapped near the welds. The next day I found a massive bubble. I made a PIN hole in it and water gushed out.
I would of loved to do this indoors but these are rather large trucks and I don’t have the facilities to do these indoors. Also the client doesn’t have an under cover area for them also. Not much you can do.
Will show you the other vehicles and my solution to my problem tomorrow.
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