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A few years back, a friend of mine who I wholesaled vinyl letters to went elsewhere to buy vinyl (cheaper of course). The guy that he bought it from was a chain smoker. I don't remember ever seeing him without a butt between his teeth. The vinyl for this particular job was reverse cut to apply to the inside of a storefront window. There were at least three layers. After spending over 2 hours laying this detailed job, he went outside to admire his hard work and was horrified to find a 1" cigarette ash crushed between the first layer of vinyl (white of course) and the window. He had to pull the whole job off and redo it because a patch just wouldn't work on this job. I just wondered if anyone ever had this happen and what was the most interesting thing "trapped"
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-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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The very first time I applied vinyl lettering to the inside of a window, I was really concerned about getting the lettering straight. I used a level and drew my line with my blue stabilo. Lined up and applied the lettering, cleaned the glass and it went perfectly.
Leaving, I glanced back at the other side of the window, and noticed a nice blue line through all of the letters with decenders. DOH......
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Haven't found anything "interesting" in vinyl, but I did find a HUGE misquoto in my transfer tape once. The sucker had close to a 3" wingspan. I saved him for a few years but lost it in a shop move. I also found a men's wedding band in a banner shipment. I called the banner supplier quite a few times to see if anyone claimed they lost it. No one did.
Havin' fun,
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I've never met a chain smoker.... plenty of folks who smoked ropes, but no chains.
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Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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....fingerprints....tho't I cleaned that darn glass better than that.... a gnat-sorta -fly lookin' bug.....seems like I trap a lotta wrinkles and air at times too...
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A gallinipper is what my grandpa used to call those huge things that look like a giant mosquito. We have them in the shop all summer here in upper Michigan.
-------------------- 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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golden retriever hair in a 2x10 foot translucent background color laid down in one impressive bubble-free panel on a backlit sign face. I was so impressed with my application skill, the dog hair really bummed me out, but was not visable from street level.
I've covered the tape hinge holding down a lower line of copy, stabilo lines, little de-laminated bits of paper from the liner when cuts were too deep, & didn't catch the scrap in the weeding process.
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I once painted 18" white numbers on a race car and the customer's golden retriever backed his butt into it just before it dried. Went thru a lot of rags on that one.
Guess I'm more aware of the vinyl since then...no problems yet, but as they say, "famous last words"...
lol Rapid
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Putting anti-graffitti film onto an 8 x 4 for the first time, dry- on a mostly black background, not using app. tape. We taped and hinged the piece, cut and tore the backing paper and pulled it away, and put that half down. We then pulled the backing paper off the other side and worked it down. We stood back to give it the OK, and noticed a roughly straight vertical line of white paper fibres right down the area where we tore the backing paper. That was at the end of a very long week. I can't even remember how we got out of it, or whether we tried to. I think I had a go at lifting the shorter end, and scraping the hairs off the film,halving the obviousness of it. It was vandalised later, hiding the remnants.
Speaking of vandals, I had a 16 x 7 ft banner done last month stolen within a week of going up, (they just cut the ropes) and eight years ago, two 18 x 8 ft billboard faces were stolen from the job- only the posts were left behind.
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