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Do you find that the perf shrinks when you Butt over time leaving a gap? perhaps edge tape over this butt - might be more of an eyesore...

Hello 101. Looking for some insight on how you would mount/fabricate these letters. This is for Indoor retail. Simple ACP backer with VHB taped gloss black acrylic letters. The green swoop is thin - client is OK if we thicken up the stroke a bit bit it’s still very thin and the spark at the top...

Swap your heater with a new one. Common issue with the 310. It’s a very easy fix and certainly well within basic capabilities with no special tools or post calibration required. Part should be in the $300 range. Save the extra cash and treat your employees to a nice lunch on Friday.

Just posted about this. Here is what we did. 3/8 clear acrylic Optically clear vinyl printed reverse. Back with a true blockout white. we used general formulation mounting adhesive to mount a piece of ACP onto the blockout vinyl covering a good chunk on the back of the acrylic. We then used...

We got one for a song and a dance from another shop. They really aren’t that good for the reasons listed above. 2” to big on a sign face is a trip back to the shop and an unhappy day. We have indeed used it for estimation purposes for large wall graphics but the accuracy just isn’t there for our...

You can always try your luck on top...

What did you use to mount the PVC onto the vinyl backed acrylic?

I hear yea about the pulling of the vinyl. That was my concern. Thoughts on backing a piece of ACP with mounting adhesive and attaching the cleats to that with construction adhesive? Great Idea about mounting directly to the PVC. We can mount to 1/2” and route keyholes into the piece just shy...

Looking for some recommendations. We would like to adhere some 3/4” Baltic birch French cleats to the backside of some second surface acrylic. We first laser cut 9mm clear cast acrylic. We then reverse print on clear the graphic and back it with a blockout white vinyl. This all gets mounted...

Forgo all the manual labour.... we laser cut acrylic for all our dimensional letters. We simply load some 3mm cardboard into the bed and laser that out with the letters. We can then check we have all the letters and package in the cardboard for very easy install with no hunting for letters -...

We have had luck with Phototex that we liquid laminate. For temporary work - we send it out with no liquid if only for less the 2 weeks. Clients appreciate the removal as they commonly do it (really just grab a corner and pull) which’s saves them the cost of sending us back. Polar is what I...

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I’m on board with your installer. We use a Canadian suppler in our shop and for less then 20 Canuck a stan loonies we get 3/4” VHB that has the same lb/sq in as 3m grey VHB. They also offer it in optically clear when we do glass mounts. For the exact reason he complains about we have gone to...

http://www.generalformulations.com/getattachment/5963ebcf-0cfa-411b-acf1-ef41253b99a7/Silvering-in-Laminates.aspx Looks like slivering to me. Increase pressure (within reason) and slow your speed down. If you have heat assist turn it on before lamination. My shop is in Toronto - when the cold...

We are just running an t160 and this extension works great for us. Unfortunately I cannot comment on a table style machines.

Side note about the cable. We have the cutter around 100’ away from the computer. Physical distance is only 20 feet but all our data drops come from the warehouse roof. We are running a simple usb to cat 5e converter. It allows us to run a virtually 300’ cat5e cable from machine to computer. at...

Before holding a squeegee I was a licensed mechanic turning wrenches in a custom performance shop. Fair share of pushing rod on 6061... 0.04” aluminum is in the pop can world... you need a very stable machine but more importantly - years of practice. Only process that can do that thin gauge...

Seal 62 base with heat assist here. We can run a 150’ roll of 180 with 8518 and it MIGHT skew a 32nd... Bought the machine second hand from a shop closing the doors so I would date it around 10 years old (as we have had the machine for 5 years) and the only repair has been a simple fuse when...

We have done something like this before. We have a 150w laser in house so we reverse cut 1/2” white acrylic and mark the locations for pins. Recently did a wall wrap there and they still look brand new. As mentioned they will require some cleaning here and there from water spots but the cast...