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excellent get some pics up

ok as promised some close ups, not great as my phones camera isnt the best, As you can see from the side of the vinyl holder i simply drilled a 25mm hole then drew 2 lines at 55' DEG and jigsawed it out so the hole was made into a slot, all i then used was some old broom handles, dowels and pipes for the roll holder, pretty simple really, then just screwed to the board at the back. You could make it freestanding if you had a big plate/sheet of wood at the bottom

thanks, i was only trying to get something up for pennies so my rolls were not sitting around in boxes taking up floor space, i will put some pics up later this weekend so you can see it a bit closer

thanks fire malt i have had a play around and i am getting the hang of a few things now, possibilities are endless i see letter.svg letter.svg

i did try to this for the OP using inkscape and i couldnt get the leaves to look good at all, i scrapped the text totally as that can always be added in after

the application tape holder is shite you dont want to copy that lol, the vinyl rack was 4 x 2 timber with 25mm holes drilled every 8cm, and the jigsawed out at an angle then i have used poles and broom handles for the roll holders, if i were to do it again i would leave the spaces atleast 10cm instead of 8cm or even 12-14cm as the rolls that are on at the moment are only 5mtr, if you have bigger rolls every other slot would be redundant. I would also use 6 inch wood rather than 4. If you have a router you could make it so much nicer and just route in the slot with a depth of about an inch, but i wasn't worried about it looking pretty lol The application tape is simpley 4 x 2 screwed to a board with two holes drilled through and a copper pipe through the holes, with some walking stick feet on the end of the copper pipe to stop it slipping out, problem is the roll doesn't roll very freely or smoothly its very jerky, i am going to try it again my putting a 2nd bar in this time and some inserts of plastic pipe in the holes of the wood and so it spins more freely, i'll get some close up pics this weekend though, but it was a hashed job which took all of 5 mins lol

thats ok now i know its possible and you have given me some guidance i will have a play, thanks again

yeah thats exactly what i was trying to achieve, i dont actually need it for anything im just trying to learn what can/can't be done really, i shall give this a go again later today following your tips and see what i can come up with Thanks again

yeah i am well happy with that, it took about 2 hours to make, i still need more rods but it was well worth the effort as i had them stood in boxes before taking space, now they are out the way its full now as well 17 rolls lol

be kind these are the first batch, i still havent got "The One" but im sure in about 12 months i will have it

here is my workspace n the UK its in the back of my step dads work unit

you trying to say a roll of tape is smarter than me!!! im i am very well edumacated and intaelectrical i'll tell you lol

well i just followed your little how to and i did it perfectly 1st time im well chuffed, and thats a great little how to thanks

nice tip i didnt know you could print out the tip of the day tips so easily. cheers

your a genius, why didn't i think of that, that makes so much sense, now you have said it seems to be too obvious lol, i will give both of those tips a go tomorrow as i attempted this 4 times today and have thrown away about 5 mtrs of white vinyl (Cheap stuff thankfully) mostly in temper lol When I use the clear app tape, I actually, lay the clear tape on the table with the adhesive side up, put a little weight on a corner, like scissors, metal tape measure to keep it down, then start at one end of the decal, and kind of apply it to the clear tape.. not just lay the whole decal on it, but kind of roll slowly the decal from one end to the other, smoothing it out as I go. also if you want to do layering different colors. you can still use paper tape,, do your main decal in paper, and apply pieces of clear tape on the registration marks to see them..

i did tape the vinyl down but didn't hlp too much, i shall try the antistatic band though nice idea

hi all, i have been having a similar problem trying to install a piece of vinyl 40cm x 80cm well 3 of them actually, but it just went wrong right from the start, i was using med tack clear app tape, and i just could not get it cleanly on the vinyl it was just sticking to everything before i could get it near, and the static from it was unreal, i only passed it over the vinyl with a space of about 6 inches and the static sucked the vinyl straight to app tape, i know i need to get some paper app tape but any tips on using the clear as in the near future i need to do some large 2-3 colour vinyls and i really need to use the clear so i can see the reg marks cheers

this seemed like a good idea to start with, half way through i thought "what the hell am i doing" but in the end i was extremely pleased with the result and thought i would share it with you guys http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u155/littlebouncers/SP_A0004.jpg[/img]

i can't save it as when i try to open it it says corrupt??

thanks

well i tidied the vector up and did it again (i must be mad lol) did it much bigger this time on a decent shape background and a vw logo

hi guys, could someone be so kind as to help with vectoring this for me i have been trying for several hours using inkscape and i just cant get a good enough result, i have a good vector of the footbal, lion and crown i can add in later but i just cant the rest, i want to do it in full colour# any help would be appreciated and my laptop would be very grateful too as im going to smash it up soon lol

i did try to do it that way using SB and it was a nightmare, i think its more to do with my lack of knowledge of SB more than anything else

i understand about cutting the vector to get colurs,but when i was trying to vectorize the image i either got lines that were too faint to work with or solid black areas that didnt define the image, i just could not get a good balance

thank you, i have no idea how you did it, i can only get it in black and white which was of no use. What do you recommend for cleaning it up so its ready to use in SBE?? thanks again