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Hey are the pieces left over from aluminim substrates (DiBond ACM) recyclable? Can I take them to a metal recycle place?
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3813 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Probably not unless you peel the aluminum off the core.
I peeled the aluminum off some alumalite once. Got it started and wrapped it around a broom handle. Spun the broom and it peeled it off pretty well. I only did one...decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Never tried to peel it off of dibond, maxmetal, etc...
-------------------- Ace Graphics & Printing Camdenton, MO. USA
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Make some little stuff......name plates; directional way-finding arrows, etc.; comical-type street signs; possible water marker boards to write notes on......anything you can possibly make a buck on.
I did a sign for a gift shop with a couple big gift boxes on it.....bent strips of the composite and made big "ribbons" for the boxes.
WE could get into metal sculpture. I've seen some pretty cool stuff done of metal scraps.
-------------------- Dale Feicke Grafix 714 East St. Mendenhall, MS 39114
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." Posts: 2963 | From: Mendenhall, MS | Registered: Apr 1999
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I had a scrap leftover that I just could not throw out. 32x48". Then last week I had a customer order a landscape for his dining room and specified the size exactly what I had with this scrap. That never happens. A week later and after making the poplar frame with 24 coats of lacquer on it it is done. $8200. Not bad for a scrap that I did not even have to trim down. Thank my lucky stars for scraps. See it on Facebook "McCall Fine Art" https://www.facebook.com/mccallfineart
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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These are all a bunch of strips, long 1 in lenghts, small off cuts left over from doing a lot of large shape cuts.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3813 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Well, don't tell the environ-mentalists, but like alllll the rest of what sign shops use, carrier paper, app tape, vinyl etc, it is Not recycleable!
If they only knew, we would be using one shot again.
But would That be a bad thing!?
-------------------- Bill'n'Annie Davidson Heathcote, NSW, Aus. my Aussie wife, a Toohey's Old, my Holden Ute, Retired from the rat race! Posts: 309 | From: Heathcote, NSW, Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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I do a lot of work for recycling yard and they don't accept this material because of the plastic in the middle. Judy
-------------------- Judy Pate Signs By Judy Albany, Georgia USA 229-435-6824
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That's what is so screwed-up about the political correctness and phony environmentalism that's going on now.
They take away our good quality bulletin enamels, because they are "so dangerous".No thought is given to the miniscule amount of paint that our industry uses, and the tiny amount of waste that's involved with lettering/painting signs.
Then they give us vinyl, with the app tape, wasted overage, backing sheets, etc...all of which is like Bill said, waste and probably just as hazardous as the paint we gave up.
-------------------- Dale Feicke Grafix 714 East St. Mendenhall, MS 39114
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To add to what Bill and Dale have said, you can be sure that the manufacture of all these sacrificial materials as well as the vinyl itself, is a far greater use of resources and raw materials than a quart of oil base paint requires. Not to mention the transportation and inventorying of all this stuff. And on top of this are the never ending equipment upgrades.
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 590 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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To get back to Alicia's thread, you could wait for a foggy night, place some cardboard vinyl boxes and tubes in your burn barrel, set a match to them and when it gets good and hot start tossing in the ACM cut offs. In the morning you can sell the aluminum to the recycle place and then go and have breakfast.
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 590 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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But Dale, the politicians had to save the millions of kids that were chewing on all our signs. Especially the ones way up high.... those kids could fall and hurt themselves. And don't forget the poor psychiatrists that have lost so many patients because they don't have to figure out why these kids have this strong desire to eat our signs.
-------------------- 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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The layer of aluminum is so thin that if I had to I think I could chew through it with my teeth...if I added all my scrapes together they probably wouldn't amount to more than 2 or 3 coke cans...more trouble than it's worth.
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Rusty, a coke can is punched from a disk about 3" in diameter and about as thick as one side of Alucobond, not much there.
I worked in a commercial shop in San Jose, and we filled the big trailer size skip in a week with scrap. Six people applying vinyl. Two cutting, three weeding.... Gadzooks.
-------------------- Bill'n'Annie Davidson Heathcote, NSW, Aus. my Aussie wife, a Toohey's Old, my Holden Ute, Retired from the rat race! Posts: 309 | From: Heathcote, NSW, Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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