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Re: Vynil banner
By:Tony
Date: 2/16/2001, 1:15 pm
In Response To: Vynil banner (Marcelo)

I found that out by mistake. I figured that if I filled a ziplog bag with water / gel mix, I could use the weight of the bag to compress the fibreglass to conform to the sharp edge of the stern bottom. Well I used a vinyl bag I got from my lab. To my horror, the bag stuck like crazy. I have to spend 2 days to slowly scrap and sand the bag out because it have blue color words print all over it. I assume that it may work if I lined the bag with a trash bag.
Well, we all learn from our (or preferably someone else's if you read ths BBS) mistake.

: One of the things I had to do when trying to recuperate my boat from the
: "skin cancer" (uncured opaque epoxy) was to sand it to the bare
: wood.

: Prior to the epoxy mess I had applied a self adhesive vinyl banner (a banner
: cut from a vinyl sheet with a some special plotter at a design factory) on
: to the wood.

: It worked great, and beneath the fiberglass looked like a painted banner.

: When I sanded the whole thing out, I had to work a LOT to peel this thing off
: the boat. The adhesive of the vinyl plus the resin applied over it
: actually stick it to the boat like a tatoo.

: Hope this helps

: Marcelo

Messages In This Thread

Staining strips
Rick -- 2/1/2001, 11:37 pm
Vynil banner
Marcelo -- 2/2/2001, 4:03 pm
Re: Vynil banner
Tony -- 2/16/2001, 1:15 pm
Re: shrink wrap
Erez -- 2/17/2001, 1:19 pm
Re: shrink wrap
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/18/2001, 8:55 pm
Re: Staining strips *Pic*
Bill Price -- 2/2/2001, 3:22 pm
Re: Staining strips
Byron -- 2/2/2001, 10:23 am
Re: Staining strips
Russ -- 2/2/2001, 10:11 am
Re: Staining strips
Jim McCool -- 2/2/2001, 9:35 am
Re: Staining strips
John Monfoe -- 2/2/2001, 6:16 am
Re: Staining strips
John Monfoe -- 2/4/2001, 4:48 am