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FedEx graphics install
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WhiskeyDreamer
Professional Snow Ninja
it's better to stretch the area before the indent so you're not stressing the vinyl at that point. adding primer to make sure you get the best possible adhesion helps too.
Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
if you just heated that one area where you pushed it in it will probably lift
johnnysigns
New Member
Did you post heat that indent afterwards?
John_Smith
Enjoying retirement in Central Florida
photos of completed difficult projects are always nice to see.
fairstreet ink
New Member
Tricky area. Too bad you couldn't move it down 8 inches.
Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
Doing it that way would make the top of the letter short and distorted. You need more material, so to speak, to get those letters hitting even on the top.
You really need to bridge it, heat well below the recess and the push it in. This draws material from the flat area which is less likely to lift. At least that is my understanding of how to do it.
Take some of the vinyl you cut away when you weeded the f and do an underlay roughly the shape of where the decal well land over the recess... Not past it, just over it.
Apply like normal, stretch it a little bit into the channel, cut it, then push it in with no stretching. You're hand cutting what... 2" on the sides to line up the edge of the F perfectly?
No stretching, there will be a slight "seam" in the channel, but it won't lift or bubble and it'll be far, far less noticeable than the 2 " bubble that's going to appear on this vehicle a week after it's in the sun.
For letters and stuff like this that's easy, that's the quickest most efficient way and it looks the nicest - ive seen so many sprinter vans where it's bubbling all around the windows... It looks like garbage.
The problem is people follow the specs... They apply a gallon of primer, post heat it, and consider it to be cool proof. Rarely do they see the vehicle weeks later to see all the lifting on it. The above way has a much better success rate and is one of two ways we've never seen a bubble.
The other as mentioned is to stretch before the area so the stretch is not on the recess. But that works for full color wraps or where there is no text, otherwise it'll look funny and distort it. There are ways around that... But it takes a lot longer to do and is a pain.
Apply like normal, stretch it a little bit into the channel, cut it, then push it in with no stretching. You're hand cutting what... 2" on the sides to line up the edge of the F perfectly?
No stretching, there will be a slight "seam" in the channel, but it won't lift or bubble and it'll be far, far less noticeable than the 2 " bubble that's going to appear on this vehicle a week after it's in the sun.
For letters and stuff like this that's easy, that's the quickest most efficient way and it looks the nicest - ive seen so many sprinter vans where it's bubbling all around the windows... It looks like garbage.
The problem is people follow the specs... They apply a gallon of primer, post heat it, and consider it to be cool proof. Rarely do they see the vehicle weeks later to see all the lifting on it. The above way has a much better success rate and is one of two ways we've never seen a bubble.
The other as mentioned is to stretch before the area so the stretch is not on the recess. But that works for full color wraps or where there is no text, otherwise it'll look funny and distort it. There are ways around that... But it takes a lot longer to do and is a pain.
WhiskeyDreamer
Professional Snow Ninja
normally, at least in my experience, projects like this, you are supplied the vinyl and just do the application. we've done multiple FedEx trucks and they always bring the vinyl to us.
fairstreet ink
New Member
Its probably too late but, I just passed a FedEx van earlier like the one you are working on. I noticed the installer lowered the logo just below that window line. It looked like he made logo to fit just inside those two fake window areas. This may help on your next install.
Gino
Premium Subscriber
fairstreet ink
New Member
I just assumed that original post was showing the back of the van. He never specified. The van I saw, actually had a little bit larger logo on the back and it fit just about an inch below the window area. That's what I was referring to.
Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
Gnubler better hope they aren't that picky
spectrum maine
New Member
we did a fedex up here and it took 9 months to pay
johnnysigns
New Member
We were always supplied the graphics when we did fedex trucks.
I’ve been doing this mobydick was a minnow, it’s the only way. If you follow my advice with the F and E they will come out the same height. Your understanding?, have ever installed vinyl on a recess like this??
Notarealsignguy
Arial - it's almost helvetica
Nope never. I just stumbled upon something interesting to talk about while looking for porn.
All I can say is you're wrong. I don't feel like explaining it to you. There are many people that are as old as mobydick and don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
GAC05
Quit buggin' me
Did they send the payment by FedEx?
I've given up on them out here, it's faster to walk to California and pick it up myself.