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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!!!!!!!!!
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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!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- Karyn Bush Simply Not Ordinary, LLC Bartlett, NH 603-383-9955 www.snosigns.com info@snosigns.com Posts: 3516 | From: Bartlett, NH USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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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.
-------------------- Devin Fahie Sebago Signworks Rt. 302, Raymond, Maine 207-655-6622 devin@sebagosignworks.com Posts: 96 | From: Raymond, Maine | Registered: Jun 2003
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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!
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
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