Vinyl Graphics: Metropolis

[Richard Urquhart]

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[Robert Lambie]

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so glad i did it dry it saved me so much time

il liked this sentence so much… ill qoute it again…

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so glad i did it dry it saved me so much time

great stuff mate.. pics/work look great.. really glad you you gave it a go..
something worse than wet application is… wet application in the cold 😮
you would still be there now trying to get the app tape off the vinyl on those shutters. 😕

not sure if you have but seeing your going back tomorrow it wont matter.. but..
did you heat along the joins in the shutter? if not.. use a heat gun and give it a nice blast of hot air rubbing in with a finger or better still felt squeegee… it give it a better finish and grips better to the vinyl finish on the shutter.
another tip.. if you “have time” using a small straight edge slighly trim the vinyl back from the joins rather than just slitting. helps increase the life of the vinyl when its getting wound back and forward..

thanks for taking the time to post your work mate.. great stuff…

bye the way.. did you know you have 2 orbs in those pictures? 😮

[Carrie Brown]

Nice work Rich and congrats on your first dry application!!! 😀

We are about to sign our roller shutter door, so now we know to trim back rather than just slit.

Carrie 😀

OOoooh I spotted the orbs aswell.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Holy Cow!
That looks good.
Seems you had a bit of help from the Spirit World too!
Love….Jill

[Robert Lambie]

yep.. trimming back helps heaps carrie. the slats actualy move a little back and forward as well as side to side. so if you just slit it.. the two slats rubbing off each other cause the vinyl to loosen off along the joins.. it then dog ears and starts tp flap back a little.. it then gets wet and dirty.. starts to get brittle and before you know it the world has ended… 😮 not really.. just getting carried away there.. ahem.. 😕 you know what i mean anyway 😉

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks all
rob did it just like you said i cut the vinyl where it butted together so vinyl didn’t meet and as for heat i went over it 2 times allowing it to cool

i had some push pull signs and door times to do which contained a blue backing i would have never done this dry before but would never ever do wet on glass again !!!!

[Richard Urquhart]

jill im missing something spirt world ??

[Robert Lambie]

nice one mate.. shouldnt have any worries or come backs. 😉
once you start doing bits here and there dry, your confidence will grow..

thanks for the pics mate.. great stuff.

[Robert Lambie]

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jill im missing something spirt world ??

jill means the circles of light caught in your pictures mate… scroll back and you will see in two pictures you have 1, but in different places as they are known to move.

maybe this link will help. 😉

http://www.throwpots.com/orbs.htm

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[Nicola McIntosh]

really nice job there rich!! 😀 😀

bet you feel fab doing it dry eh!! 😛 finished job looks terrific!!

what vinyl did you use? and was the white lettering cut in one? just curious 😛 😛

Nik

[John Singh]

I wondered what Jill meant

Thought she’d been at the spirits again *drink*

John

[Jill Marie Welsh]

heyyyyyy!
I don’t go for the hard stuff.
And I rarely do it dry.
love
jill
(drink1)

[Richard Urquhart]

i get it now jill , after all that dry did i say dry i love that word application i was in another world
nik i had to do the white vinyl in 3 parts with an overlap that i trimmed on site
as for the vinyl im now using jac serisign after using mactac 9800 which i always had a struggle to weed this stuff goes on nice and weeds so easy

[Richard Urquhart]

wow what a job all finished today 2 big shutters i medium shutter 4 counters and lots of small signs
well pleased as this is my biggest job

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[magpie]

What a load of Orb claptrap!

Make your own by shaking a duster anywhere dimly lit and use the flash on your camera – OMG lotsa spirits 😮 .

Sorry to be so dismissive but my daughters going through the spookydookie phase again and waking us in the middle of the night, so my tolerance is low.

By the way Rich, the job looks great – Spirits or no 😉