Left for lunch right as I was starting a new sign - so when I come back I can't get the vinyl to stick - I'm struggling - got the heater on it etc... After a little head scratching I realize I hadn't removed the plastic coating from th substrate. I think the smell of this FiberBrite is getting to me!!!!!!!!!
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
dont feel alone....at the MONTGOMERY letterhead meet, mark fair made a wall that was 8' tall by 32' i think.... from 4x8 sheets of aluminum. mike myers and a couple others started to paint on this canvas.......ONLY TO FIND OUT MARK HADNT PEELED the clear protective plastic off them!!!!! the aluminum and alumilite i get have that on them...BUT ITS LIGHT BLUE!!!!
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
so how do you like working with it?? doesn't it make you itch? or do you wear latex gloves? cutting the stuff sucked! but it won't let you down as far as holding up in weather.
Posted by Devin Fahie (Member # 3961) on :
Fiberbrite is great, though I want to wear a body suite while cutting it! Like Karyn says its great in wheather, I use it for most of my marina accounts. My supplier rarely has it in stock.And its too much to buy it through the mfg. because of the shipping costs.
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
I think everybody's done that ... once. I've done it in reverse too ... Wanting to use the protective masking as a paint mask, draw my design with a sharpie, get the x-acto out to cut it and realize there is no masking on the sheet of alum ... just a bunch of sharpie scribbles ... DOH!
Posted by Camille Norvaisas (Member # 501) on :
Karyn, I like the Fiberbrite - I ordered it in the size I needed so no cutting necessary - it's much lighter than aluminum (which is what I was using before) and it's actually MUCH cheaper than the aluminum INCLUDING shipping costs. Smells like bondo though - like I walked into a body shop or something.
