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Ever weed Oracal 5700 reflective?

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I just tried to weed some 3" letters out of some Oracal 5700 reflective. It's akin to removing vinyl from a vehicle... if said vehicle had been out in the sun for 5 years or so. Not fun. Is this typical or do I have 50 yards of defective material here? (I have weeded several other brands of reflective and while you must be careful it is not anything like weeding this stuff)
 
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yeah it can be a PITA!!!!
we only use Orcal reflective and found that the temp on the vinyl plays a big issue and the plotter set-up we have to increase the pressure and that a 60* blade is best
 
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You're a better man than me. I got an RMA # and will be shipping it back. Life's too short to weed something like that.
 
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the cost from our supplier is such we cant over look it and go to another brand and once you get the hand of how that vinyl works not bad
 
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skyhigh said:
I just cut some Oracal 5600 today. It weeds like a dream compared to any other I've used.
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I was working with 5700. Either it was a bad roll or 5600 is a different formula.
I normally use KIWA but I thought I would give Oracal a try based on their 651 and 751 being very good weeding vinyls. The roll of 5700 I had was not good weeding vinyl.
 
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