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Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

what sort ofpaint do you guys and girls use on plastic corflute if that is what its called on your side of the world the cardboard like plastic stuff used for real estate signage

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Ian Wilson
Signmaker Toowoomba City Council
Cnr Anzac Ave & Stephen st
Toowoomba Queensland Australia
may all your toubles be little ones
The man that never make a mistake never makes anything

Posted by Myra Grozinger (Member # 327) on :

I have good success with 79000Series NAZDAR Corogloss Screen Ink.
There is never any problem with static in screen printing. And though I never did, I am CERTAIN you can thin it down and hand letter with it as well.

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Myra A. Grozinger
Signs Limited
Winston-Salem, NC
V 336-722-1033/F 336-723-6112
signslimited@triad.rr.com

Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :

Hi Dave

If you scuff the surface of the flute lightly with a a polypad and a bit of Ajax you can letter directly onto it with enamels.

Viponds make an undercoat especially for corflute so you can roll or spray an enamel background colour that will not lift when applying vinyl lettering ... see your friendly Oxlades Rep

I also use Easy Prep and/or Penetrol made by the Flood Company both of which help enamels bond to any smooth surface.

Screen inks thinner with Laquor thinners works too but scratches easily.

What's with the corflute anyway? Can't our City Council afford metal any more? hahahahhaa

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Bushie
aka Jon Butterworth
Jonsigns
old signwriters never retire ... they just fade into the background!
Toowoomba,Queensland
Australia.

Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

these are just temporary for a carnival of flowers display do you want the job of painting them save me buying in the paint I have work up to my arm pits at the present moment all needed by the carnival of flowers

Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :

If you wind up using screen ink, use acrylic retarder in preference to straight thinners, it gives you a little more time to work it.
You might wanna re-think using your favourite brush too, can prematurely turn a good brush into a stirring stick.
David

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David Fisher
D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services
Brisbane Australia
da_pmf@yahoo.com

Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :

Whatcha doin satdi arvo Ian? Call in and chew the fat over cupla stubbies .. no probs with the Carnival Flutes ... pece-a-pis .. nebber say no to a mate in distress

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Bushie
aka Jon Butterworth
Jonsigns
old signwriters never retire ... they just fade into the background!
Toowoomba,Queensland
Australia.

Posted by Graham Hodge (Member # 168) on :

Come now Jon, you'll have our American and Canadian friends thinking we all talk like that! Of course, down here in the south we talk proper

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Gray M. Hodge
Cam River Signs
Somerset, Tasmania.

Posted by Gail & Dave Beattie (Member # 572) on :

hehehe gray
i was thinking that its really hard to type it the way we actualy say it
what with droping the ends of most words and drawling the others together its not wonder that no one but ourselves can understand us

but wait a mo, jon's a kiwi and if im not mistaken gray is a pomm so i guess its just me then!

cheers
gail

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on chat T2

Gail & Dave
NSW Australia

taurus@kooee.com.au

sumtimes ya just gota!

Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

baby sittin my new grandaughter on saterdi Jon and fixing the brakes on me old bomb the missuss pranged the other car so if I don,t I'll be walking and am to lazy to do that will see you on Mondy

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

Ian
There is nothing wrong with a little Buff and Scuff with sandpaper and letter or graphics with the tried and true 1-Shot...

Did a 8' by 16' mural on 6mm coroplast and lasted close to 10 years with
1-Shot paints only.

I have a 2'x 16' on 10mm coroplast out there for 6 years now with 1-Shot Enamels.

No clear coating and going through the summer, fall, winter, and spring months...

This is only three cents Canadian worth of info!

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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca

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