9 Jun 18:53
Repurposed aerial banner > wheelcovers
From: JW Stephens <lray <at> mindspring.com>
Subject: Repurposed aerial banner > wheelcovers
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile
Date: 2008-06-09 16:53:56 GMT
Subject: Repurposed aerial banner > wheelcovers
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.transportation.humanpowered.velomobile
Date: 2008-06-09 16:53:56 GMT
For several months I have been working on securing a used, towed aerial banner to repurpose into sailcloth wheelcovers. Success! The company that I work for prints grand-format (17' wide inkjet printer) projects, one of which was several aerial banners for a wireless phone company. They are printed in vertical strips and welded together into a 150' x 40' final banner. The welding and prepping needs to be done by an FAA-certified company, so we had this banner returned to us so that we could reverse-engineer the finishing to do it in-house. Typically, this done, the banner would be trash. Basura. Landfill. But this one banner could be repurposed and fill the world's need for light-weight, easy-to-make fibre wheelcovers so I pestered my bosses until they were thoroughly sick of the harrasment and begged me to take my shit and get out. So to speak. Seventy pounds of printed and welded banner, too big to take home in my Versatile. Now I've got it home, beta-tested my project, and have this on offer. Get some for free! As much as you need. You pay for the packaging and shipping and throw me a bone for my time and effort. The fabric is "Spinnaker Cloth" like this: http://www.northsails.com/north_america/North_Cloth/fiber_to_fabric.html (scroll down to the bottom) printed with a very large-scale graphic. Most sections are orange with black specks. Some image a phone. What's cool about using this fabric: Instead of sewing it, you can use tape. I used one-inch 3M ATG tape, which leaves the adhesive in place as it winds up the paper carrier. The fabric is translucent, so you could illuminate your wheelwells with LEDs and get some interesting(Continue reading)
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