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vinyl racks anyone have any to get rid of ?? need 1 or 2 I have them (vinyl) in a storage box and some are getting flat spots .dont feed so well with them thanks all
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Try standing the rolls on end rather than flat.
You can also make racks. I used 1" dowels at a slight up angle glued into 2x4's and fabricated a functional and attractice rack. I've seen others made with soup cans mounted with long screws to a 2x4. The cans are just the right size for the tubes to slip over.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
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I use shoe trees. You can get them at Home Depot. There are 56 loops to put vinyl on them. Can't put a full roll on them but they sure come in handy for smaller stuff. Price $12.00.
------------------ Kevin Landry KnL Signs Halifax NS
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Hey Rick, I had racks just like those a thousand years ago at my old shop in Fla. They work great. That was in the Gerber 4B days when the Signmaker sat at the right end of the weeding table and spat out it's business down the 2'x10' bench. Over the top of the bench was my rack - two 2x4's - one over the other - with the dowels spaced every 8" apart. Held lots of 15" rolls. We didn't have to deal with longer rolls in those days.
Here's the reason I piped onto this topic...when buying your parts for this project, take a good look around the lumber yard. Dowels can be expensive, depending on where you find them. I have a clear memory of tripping over a box on the floor in the plumbing dept that was filled with wooden toilet plunger replacement handles, with a ridiculous price of something like 26 cents each stuck on them. I took the whole box! They were threaded on one end and rounded over on the other end. Of course, the threaded end went into the 2x4, leaving a nice finished appearance on the "sticky-outy" end. Few things in life are as comforting as having your "sticky-outy" end look good. Just thought I'd share that.
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