Vinyl for High Heats

[Ballistic 28]

I have a customer needing some decals made for his paving equipment and asked if i have any vinyl that can stand about 350 F degrees

 

Right now my main vinyl i use is 3M 220 High Performance, i doubt it can take 300+ degree heat

 

Is there anything out there? If so what brand and whats its costs like?

[FrznFire07 217]

just curious, we do decals for construction and paving equipment, and normal vinyl seems to hold up just fine, where is the decal going that it would be 350 degrees?

 

wouldn't the decal go somewhere on the equipment so people can see it?

[Ballistic 28]

just curious, we do decals for construction and paving equipment, and normal vinyl seems to hold up just fine, where is the decal going that it would be 350 degrees?

 

wouldn't the decal go somewhere on the equipment so people can see it?

 

He said "It goes on the hopper where the asphalt gets dumped into out of a truck"

 

If its up on the hopper sides probably would be fine

[FrznFire07 217]

i would think it would be ok, i can't imagine the sides of the hopper getting all that hot, isn't the hopper designed to keep heat in rather than diffuse

heat thru the sides?

[OWJones 1,981]

Oracal 751 and 951 are supposed to be good up to 230° which is above the boiling point of water...

[Ballistic 28]

Looked up the 3M i use and its at the same temp for max heat, ill just use it for the job

[Wildgoose 4,200]

My day job is roadwork. My current company doesn't pave but I have worked for several paving outfits over the years. Hotmix is usually loaded out around 325deg. It will cool down some while in transit but is usually still in the neighborhood of 290-300, I doubt that the sides of the hopper would get clear up that hot but I bet 200 to 240 would be likely once in a while. I wasn't in the vinyl business back then but I seem to remember vinyl on our paver hoppers that seemed fine. Maybe it was painted but I doubt it.