infrared heating

[wes70]

Never thought about the boiling water procedure. I have heard of other using small steamers with some success.

[Dewi]

Tried a steamer... with the pad it just wouldn't stay close enough to the van to be effective, so I took the pad off and scolded my hand on the pipe. That was the end of using a steamer

Cheers, Dewi

[SignXman]

Originally Posted by Dewi

Discovered after a while that the easiest way was to get boiling water and pour it over the vinyl... it only works on a small patch at a time, but you can just peel the vinyl off.

Sounds stupid, but I forgot all about it until I was working with another signmaker about 12 months ago and he used the exact same method.

Cheers, Dewi

A wall-paper stripper works a treat for this type of work (and you don't need to keep filling up the kettle )

[teaspoon]

Talking to a customer the other day who had to remove loads of reflective chevrons from the side of his van, he did it with a wallpaper stripper as he'd had it breaking up - worked a treat.

[bikerjohn]

We've got a row of infra-reds down both sides of our fitting bay.

I found that with a gas blower we could bring a van inside first thing in the morning and at lunchtime it was still cold to the touch. With infra-reds the van starts getting warm straight away.

Application is much quicker, easier, and the vinyl is much less likely to start lifting.

The running costs aren't too bad, and the time saved (at £30 per hour?) makes them actually cheaper than working in the cold.

We've also got a couple of free standing ones for working on-site. That's even better because we can use the customers electricity.

[James Kelly]

We were in a few tool hire stores over the past week and noticed that they all rent out infrared heaters, that would be a better way to try-before-you-buy.

[bikerjohn]

Originally Posted by James Kelly

We were in a few tool hire stores over the past week and noticed that they all rent out infrared heaters, that would be a better way to try-before-you-buy.

That's true James, but last year Andrews wanted as much for a week's rental as we could buy our own for.

Also, when you need heaters, it's because it's cold. That's when everybody else wants to rent them too, so you run the risk of the hire company not having any available.

On balance, I reckon it's better to buy. They're not expensive.

[ecotrails]

You could always steal some from pub smoking shelters, conveniently they are on time trips so you could just snip and run...... us smokers wouldn't mind missing that bit of heat, we are used to being abused and dying a lingering death of arthritus and rhuematism in this country while every other EU country simply ignores what is clearly seen as a ridiculous law...

Eco

[simon c]

Originally Posted by ecotrails

us smokers wouldn't mind missing that bit of heat, we are used to being abused and dying a lingering death of arthritus and rhuematism in this country while every other EU country simply ignores what is clearly seen as a ridiculous law...

Eco

never a truer work spoken

[alan dutton]

We had to remove hundreds over the years off tractors.Thick metal and hard to keep warm. our method get a bucket of water as hot as you can stand and a thick cloth or old towel put some soap in into the bucket then onto a part to be removed with the towel don't go all over just what is under the cloth keep on for thirty seconds then lift a corner the thing should peel because the glue has softened with the heat remove excess glue with white spirit.