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Your answer is "what paint will stick to the substrate?"
Because ablating it away is not the problem, but making sure the stuff left behind does not fall off in use.
Metal primers, wood primers... do your homework.
Krylon is a very specific chemical concoction, made to have superior properties...
The advantages in using cut vinyl on OTHER substrates is longevity, especially if using cast vinyl.
I did some local Landcare signs in 1999 here, using 3M 7725 cast vinyl.
21 years later in full sun all day they still look good, and not appreciably faded.
The local council did some in...
I've used E-cut for some 8-10 years, and find it very useful, especially for lasering in acrylic. It's great.
Of course it won't nest a file in which all shapes are grouped or compounded- that translates as one item. They need to be separated to be able to be moved by the software.
You could buy a dremel, a mirror, and try and do your own dentistry...
Don't undervalue the years of theory, experience and product knowledge those who know what they are doing, have. I've lost count of the number of times I've walked through shopping centres and seen staff trying to apply vinyl...
I hope it was just about free, or they paid you to take it.
Parts are going to be super-scarce, unless you scrounge two spares to be sacrificial donors, and get extra stock of heads and inks and head cleaning cartridges and ink waste buckets.
PS It looks line new heads are in order
Do a head...
Forget heat transfers.
I've not had a shirt with a digitally printed heat transfer that lasted.
Either the ink fades, or the transfer peels - way too soon - as well as feeling clammy like thick plastisols.
We still use out L26500, and have 30 cartridges & 10 heads spare, so hope to get my...
Thanks. I have 2 spare ink buckets, just bought 3 head cleaning paper roll cartridges, and still have 28 ink cartridges, and about 8 heads, and bought 1 belt, so I need to get more life from it !
Melt and reglue is because of heat.
Heat is because you are not removing the heat and chips quickly enough - ie X Y speed is too slow. (or conversely cutter RPM is too fast, for the travel speed you are using)
I have two suggestions: try and label a blank CD or a backup copy CD as FCCDv76_FCAIIv76
(which translates as the initials of Fine Cut Corel Draw version 7.6 & Fine Cut Adobe Illustrator same version, but I can;t say why there are two Is or is it an eye and an el ?)
Try serial issuance...
No idea... how do you lose something as important as that?
The original cd wasn't actually labelled Finecut, but something convoluted and doubled like FCv7_FCu_2 or something like that.
What surprised me was it IS broken on the inner hole, but after a year of sitting not plugged into the CD...
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