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Hi Everyone, please could you give me advice for the best substrate to use to do some small 24"x18" 'For Sale' signs for a boat broker. They need to be able to survive hanging on boats in the hot sun at a marina. He said they often get stolen or fall in the water so want to keep costs down. Any suggestions of what to use and where to get it would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Coroplast indeed. If he wants to spend a few more dollars use .040 blanks (Grimco, Local Distributor). Depending on how there mounted, they may hold up in the wind better, and would look more professional.
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Somehow I don't think Coroplast is going to hold up in a marina environment, hanging off a boat, probably by hooks from a bow railing...not with simple gromets anyway - they'll pull out. I think the hardware and hanging method is going to be as important as substrate selection. Maybe something from HangUps.com?
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We've been screen printing similar signs for years, on coro, with grommets. Coro is tough stuff. If the wind is strong enough to pull them off that boat better be in drydock.
You can go to the added expence of high density polyethylene if your screenprinting them but vinyl adhesion is less than you'd probably like.
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Coroplast isn't the answer to everything (thank God).
For marina applications I would use a banner material with grommets so they can be bungied or tied on to the boat (on a life line - mast - boom - bow pulpit - stern pulpit - cabin - or just strapped to the seat) it has no sharp edges to scratch anything and nothing stiff about it to hang up on things...marina owners love them because they don't create any damage... an even cheaper and nearly long lasting product would be tyvek (but this would need to be silk screened...banners could use vinyl lettering so copy could be changed, added or deleted).
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