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I'm a graphic designer for feature films (and sign person on my days off!). I've searched the forum about vinyl on aircraft and got a few hints. However, I need to know how to get the vinyl off, without damaging the plane's surface. Low-Tack vinyl?
Any help...greatly appreciated.
Mark
-------------------- Mark Bachman Bachman Studio Great Barrington, MA USA http://www.signart.pair.com Posts: 83 | From: Great Barrington, MA, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Yes, it will be printed. I've found out 3M makes an easy remove paper that's removable up to 2 years. Whether it's removable but still stick to the jet when needed, that's another thing. We have to tell the owner about this, before we can ask permission to do it.
-------------------- Mark Bachman Bachman Studio Great Barrington, MA USA http://www.signart.pair.com Posts: 83 | From: Great Barrington, MA, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Definitely get vinyl that can be removed easily. I lettered an aluminum gas tanker once and when the business changed names I could not get the vinyl off.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5396 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Mark, the FAA requires that all vinyl graphics installed in front of jet engines be a particular 3M material. I can't remember what it's called but I know that it has tiny little pinholes every inch. It has a very aggressive adhesive. You really don't want to have an unapproved vinyl being sucked into a jet engine. Take your average vehicle speed and add a zero.
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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I believe Ricky is right....years ago I worked at Spartan International (aka SparCal...Prostripe...Trimbrite...etc) and the owner - who was a pilot - had us working on some aeronautic related projects in which we had to use perforated vinyl.
It was something about the combination of atmospheric pressure, temperatures, and speed that would make standard vinyl fly off the plane's surface....which, as you might imagine could be catastrophic.
So, I'd research this one very carefully....as their could be bigtime liability issues.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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It's about air pressure...on some little hot rods I've been involved in, the outer skin of the plane will move up to 3/4"-1", if vinyl isn't perforated, it will lose it's bond and fly off, the holes allow for the shrinkage/stretch outer skin will be subjected to while entering and exiting different zones of air pressure....don't believe me? Ask an aeronatical engineer...probably didn't know that they weigh the paint for those planes either did cha? Close tolerances....
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Just a thought. If it's a static shot (not moving or running), why not use a static cling on the aluminum? It'd come right off. Like I said, just a thought.
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