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Wet or Dry Vinyl Application for Reversed GLASS Application???

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Itsa Little CrOoked:
I've applied my cut vinyl graphics DRY ever since I went to a Rob Ivers workshop 23 years ago. EVERYtime. (Except Translucent for first surface plastic faces that are backlit.) I saw him use the hinge method using taped "hinges" and I've never looked back. I remember it hit me like a ton of bricks. I've no idea how we got along before that using application fluid.

But on glass, REVERSED....I get the tiniest, itty bitty bubbles that for an up close and personal viewing is undesirable. I've considered trying fluid again for reversed glass. (Or just Soapy Water.)  I've got some Boy Scout trophies--that are actually just 11x14 picture frames--to do today.

Has anybody every whipped this problem using just run of the mill High Performance Cast Vinyl?  I'm out of ideas.

Stan

Homer:
some vinyls do require a wet app, unfortunately. we do dry app as well because anything you put between the adhesive and the substrate becomes a contaminant. BUT, being indoors, it will expand/ contract with the window temp, you'll be alright....lightly soaped water, or one of the "special fluids" they sell...when applying wet, we use the plastic application tape, the paper stuff -with water, makes a mess...

Itsa Little CrOoked:
I just went to the local sign supply and bought a bonafide bottle of RapidTac. FIRST time in decades.

Jay, do you really think the....ummm...... "micro bubbles" will actually go away?

I don't like doing these myself. "I've got people" that oughta be doing them.

If I have to re-do a decal that an embroiderer just applied, it doesn't make sense.

Maybe this will help, but I guess I'm about to find out....

Inkworks:
We have the same issues, but have been using the hinge method from day 1 as I was familar with it from my graphic screenprinting/membrane switch days where we laminated all day every day in the shop.

Rapid tack is a good option for glass windows and the like, but it also takes some getting used to and you have to be careful to not burnish the vinyl with the squeegee which can leave marks too.

Homer:
people say the bubbles go away with time/heat  but I call BS...

how big of a decal we talking here for the window?

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