Fire truck roll-up door striping design/install

[TSC1985]

Hello, does anyone here have any experience designing or installing striping for a fire engine roll-up door. We have done plenty of these in the past where we would lay the layer(s) reflective down then hand-cut the the top and bottom of each crack to get the vinyl 1/32" off the edges to prevent lifting. After some nips on not-so-great paint we have abandoned that method. Tried to plotter cut the stipes but its almost impossible for each slat on the sets of doors to align perfectly over 20/25' of engine side.

Any tips/tricks/templates for cutting and alignment would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[Notarealsignguy]

On regular vinyl I cut between the slats and roll it over the edge. Why would this be different?

 

[TSC1985]

The edge of the slats for the reflective to sit on is very small and on some units there is a foam back liner. Ours in the past using this have curled up after a few uses. I have always seen the vinyl trimmed 1/16" short top/bottom of each slat.

 

[Gino]

Well, if ya cant be careful enough, try using that knife string stuff.

 

[rjssigns]

To help with alignment roll each door up down and latch about 10 times. The slats will settle and find a "home". Learned that from my installer that does a lot of beer trucks and trailers. He learned it the hard way.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

what material are you using?

 

[Billct2]

We hand cut back. It's a PITA and time consuming. But usually the roll ups are anodized not painted.

 

[weyandsign]

I just hold a metal ruler across and hand cut top and bottom edge as you said.