The scrap vinyl piles just never seem to go away. Does anyone have any good ideas has to how to utilize the scrap pieces of vinyl? Does anyone have a great way to store and organize scrap vinyl?
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Yepper Darren!!
Get a 45 gallon drum..cut the top off it..throw the stuff in it....light it on fire!!!
Works well!!
Posted by Steve Barba (Member # 431) on :
I've been stickin it to the pop machine!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
i use it for everything practicing, training staff, other jobs. give aways, samples, i dotn have much scrape...
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
1st i started to roll it up and stick it in the rolls of vinyl...that didnt work.....then i started to roll it up in empty centers....still didnt work...then i began laying it on the back side of my weeding table...now instead of 48" work space its now 28"....that dont work....thinkin about building a 6-8" high x 24" deep 36" long pull out drawer to go under the weeding table...let ya know how that works when i build it....
Posted by Stephen Broughton (Member # 2237) on :
When it gets creased and mangled it goes into a large bag which when full I take to the nearest junior school (kids 11 and under) and give it to them for art projects or whatever, it started when I found that a local competitor was selling it to them, tight fisted scumbag charging kids for his rubbish, so I started giving it away just to "P him off" but it backfired cos I keep getting jobs from the schools Posted by Donsigns (Member # 131) on :
I put mine in separate cardboard boxes for the various colour ranges i.e. yellow, blue, reds, etc. Used mostly for cutting stripes and small lettering and also for tiling and panels on the cheaper jobs where tiling doesn't matter.
Posted by R.Jones (Member # 2795) on :
We use it to make decals of our logo and give it away for free. We have a lot of kids with cars we do and they love to put it on thier windows. Free advertising.
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
art classes for the schools, daycare and summer camps. i give so much sh!t away. no wonder all the charities find me!(haha) it's a nice feeling though, when you know you've made someone's day!
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
I don't have any scraps, only the strips along the edges that the margin of the machine leaves behind. I use these to wrap around my dog's tail, keeping her busy and me entertained.
I use pretty much every square inch of material when I cut jobs, and if a job doesn't use the whole width of the roll I just stick a bunch of my logos in with the artwork.
I do a lot of cars and jetskis so I sell my logos, believe it or not there are people that just want your logo even if they don't buy anything else and they are willing to pay for them. I include smaller freebies with other orders.
Posted by Cheryl Lucas (Member # 1656) on :
I cut lines out of large scraps, for borders on small signs. Otherwise, we don't have no stinking scraps!
We used to save bundles of scraps, searching for what we needed, too small, creased, dirty, UGH! I let 'em go, the customer's paid for it!
Cher.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
I too, cut stripes whenever I have extra room on the vinyl. I have a shelf with all different sizes of stripes ready to do a border on any sign. All other vinyl scraps I toss.
Posted by Ken Henry (Member # 598) on :
Hey Ladies....Save on buying Nair, Neet, Depiliatory creams, Waxing etc. Use those strips of scrap vinyl for unwanted hair removal. For the extra stubborn kind, switch to Duct Tape. Posted by Cheryl Lucas (Member # 1656) on :
Hahahaha, Ken,
Enquiring minds want to know;
How do you know these things?
Scrap vinyl is also good for them pesky black heads...lol
Cher.
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Reflective scrap pieces can be cut into strips and kept in the boat if you should ever find yourself out late at night setting bush hooks for them old catfish. Just wrap one around a limb or even on the line itself....then its real easy to spot one with your flashlight when your running the lines. The reflective scraps are handy if you need to mark trails when camping so you don't get lost goin to the outhouse or something. Posted by Mike Palombo (Member # 3072) on :
I like to use my scrap vinyl as stencil material when I'm working on helmets. It doesn't pull off the paint, and it cuts perfect and clean , not like masking tape.
Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :
Bruce Ottway recycles his scrap vinyl into fine furniture. CJ couldn't resist trying it on for size. Looks pretty darn comfy!
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Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
OP, the drawer will work if you want a drawer full of forgotten scraps! LOL!
What I've done is kept only the scraps that were long enough to actually roll up. Elastic band around them, thrown in several big boxes. I use to have them color coded but that hasn't been kept up. And yep, I do even use some of them.
I also have a large portfolio bag I carry to jobs with cut decals in them. I have two separate partitions inside that hold lots of flat scraps. They've saved me dozens of times when an application has gone wrong off site.
I also sneak a few scraps when making something for Cody. Most recently, I cut down a piece of white coroplast to the size that would fit under our sofa, then vinyled a black road with yellow dotted lines down the middle, for his HotWheels. I plan to make train tracks on the other side when I have some spare time.
We use that board all the time! (note the WE) Great tower building platform on carpet!
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