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Hello All, I'm looking for some larger spay mask. right now I'm using 30" material but for some of our larger signs I'm having to do too much splicing. (We are spraying Lexan faces for lighted signs) Does anyone carry 48" material? Thanks!
-------------------- Lee McKee McKee Studios Birmingham, Al Planet Earth (sometimes) Posts: 277 | From: Birmingham, Al | Registered: Jan 2003
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...I always called it STICKY BACK" but it prob has a real name. It was like a masking tape type material and came in 48" rolls. I think it's still made. I wish I had some around (right now), it comes in handy.
...Years ago, hen I worked in an "OUTDOOR" shop, they sprayed the faces with several coats of a water based spray mask. It was milky green and dried a greenish clear, and we cut the copy out with exacto knives. ...Those sure were the "good-old-days".
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Thats the way that it has been done around here for years. We mask the panel off with transfer tape, pounce the pattern, break out the x-acto and start cutting... We have gotten to a point that now we need to be faster in our production. So now I'm cutting the layouts on an vinyl spraymask using my plotter. I just need bigger material. I've got 40 or so faces to do for Sierra Mist and now the design has three spliced sections in it if I had 48" Mask then I could get it in one shot
-------------------- Lee McKee McKee Studios Birmingham, Al Planet Earth (sometimes) Posts: 277 | From: Birmingham, Al | Registered: Jan 2003
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Anybody that carries the 30" should at least be able to order the 48". I've got a 48" of the FDC I'm presently using to mask and paint a 47' soft-side trailer ... so I know it's out there.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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We would spray on the rubber or apply two coats with a roller and hand cut also. We also often use transfer tape as a mask, and it comes in 48" logs. Still requires hand cutting though. Sometimes we just cut the paper that comes on the plexi as a mask. I realize Lexan doesn't come that way and isslit from a roll. Large signs usually have large letters and the hand cutting goes quickly.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6724 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I've been looking all over for 24". If they make 48 they'll make 24. The story I'm getting is that vinyl paint mask is made in 60" logs so you can get 60", 30", 20", & 15", just what 60 can be spliced to without waste.
Mac Tac makes a 24" but the adhesive won't work on hardwood floors because the outgassing of the sanding sealer eats the adhesive and makes it slimy.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5400 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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I used to work at a shop that used a lot of paint mask and we used Avery yellow paint mask. It cuts and weeds nice and peels nicely without breaking like the white mask. We would also buy it in 60" logs and have it slit to 2- 30" rolls or a 48" and a 12". You would be surprised at how quickly you can go through the 12" rolls, they come in quite handy sometimes.
note: the 60" logs are 100 yds and you usually get a good price if you buy the whole log. If you ask nicely they might spool off 50 yds so you can get 2-30", a 48" and a 12" all 50 yd rolls
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