annoying wrap job.

[HulkSmash]

This was the most obnoxious job. Poles, rivets, hinges, doors..20 degrees it was terrible.
It's a 38 ft straight truck. the largest in CO

EDIT: THIS METALLIC GOLD LETTERING AND IJ180 LOGOS APPLIED TO A RIVETED STRAIGHT BOX TRUCK

 

[CanuckSigns]

Looks Great!

 

[Bigdawg]

My wrap guy said kudo's... especially when he saw the 20 degrees part!

 

[GypsyGraphics]

troublesome or not... you did a really nice job!

 

[laserman70]

Looks great, really clean install. Nice work

 

[B-RAD Graphics]

Clean design... is that gold vinyl lettering with the logo as big decal..or did you fully wrap that the the cab and all?? Just curious if truck was a weird color and black & gold are there colors

 

[HulkSmash]

Nice work! That gold looks really good on the black.

Materials used....?

For the rectangle logo - IJ180 w/ 8518 OL.
For the Gold lettering - Avery Ultimate Cast 900 Metallic Gold.. (worked surprisingly well over rivets)

 

[megacab]

looks good man. nice and clean

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

am i the only person not really liking the design? app looks great...i wouldn't suggest doing any application in 20 degree weather, but everything looks like it went down nicely.

 

[cartar929]

how did you overcome the temperature issue?

 

["Deposit Please"]

huh....you did that wrap outside?

 

[HulkSmash]

how did you overcome the temperature issue?

Those are myths! Myths i say! We have a 5k sq garage. we just couldn't fit it because of the height. Garage door 14.5 feet... Vehicle height.. 14.7 feet..

We had to be really careful heating the rivets... and pushing down the lettering if we pushed too hard because it was cold it would split.. Needless to say we had several "re cuts" on certain gold lettering letters.

But we've done Dozens of installs outside - the temperature isn't as big as an issue as most make it out to be for installing vinyl IMHO.

 

[AUTO-FX]

It's not a wrap, for gawd's sake. But is DOES look nice!

With the sun shining on it, the substrate surface temp is acceptable. been there.

 

[Gino]

Kinda along with what AUTO said, what part is wrap and what part is die-cut ?? I'm missing something here.

Great looking job and in those temperatures.... God Bless ya, cause no one else will.

 

["Deposit Please"]

Got ya, you mean lettering. It still looks like it was a challenge with all the obstacles. Gold always look good on black. Looks really nice.

 

[Gino]

AHEM.....see post #8 for clarification.

Yeah, I kinda get that part. Is the black painted on... or did the OP lay that down first and apply all other vinyl overtop ??

I thought wrapping hinges and poles and the other incidentals was going a little overboard. We've done many of these trucks and they were always painted to the company's colors first and then we applied everything after the paint was dry.

If that's the case, then I don't understand the title ??
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Something else bothering me..... why is that '2' a different size ??

 

[HulkSmash]

Yeah, they didn't want to pay 11k to wrap the whole thing. So they paid 1k at maco to have it sprayed, and i lettered it. and put the logo on in Control Tac.

 

[HulkSmash]

Something else bothering me..... why is that '2' a different size ??

HAHAHAHAHA. so we installed the whole thing. Same font same text size same everything. Our office manager comes out and is like.. so uh why is that 2 bigger. It was freaking odd... can't explain it at all.

I took that pic before we replaced it.

 

[jiarby]

Looks ok to me... except for that "2"

Hope you let the paint cure long enough!

 

[HulkSmash]

Looks ok to me... except for that "2"

Hope you let the paint cure long enough!

cured 3 weeks. 1's all you need.

 

[phototec]

annoying wrap job?

For the rectangle logo - IJ180 w/ 8518 OL.
For the Gold lettering - Avery Ultimate Cast 900 Metallic Gold.. (worked surprisingly well over rivets)

Yes, it looks good, and yes it was done outside in the cold, however, applied vinyl lettering and one rectangle printed logo on each side does NOT constitute a WRAP job to me, am I missing something here?

Why the title: annoying wrap job

 

[klemgraphics]

Doing them outside sucks, it is possible without issues. I always hated fighting the wind. I have plenty of room inside now for 53' trailers and I'm not looking back.

I thought 13' 6" was the legal height limit?

Looks good though, always like black trucks when they are clean.

 

[klemgraphics]

Yeah, they didn't want to pay 11k to wrap the whole thing. So they paid 1k at maco to have it sprayed, and i lettered it. and put the logo on in Control Tac.

I just did a box truck that looked like the paint was applied with a roller, maybe an airless sprayer. It's a wonder the transfer tape didn't pull off a cheap maaco job, don't ask me why I say this.:Oops: