gabagoo
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I must be getting to old for installs (54).
One of my good customers called last week that they had a new straight truck and that they needed me to do the drivers door and the passenger door with new graphics, but that they had graphics for the box that they have had for 3 years ( rolled up in a box). I know this as they had me do 2 of their tanker trucks 3 years ago. It's all Mobil graphics and esso.
the graphics came from the US and probably from a pretty large company. Everything was comply and was done very well. The issue I was uncertain of was how would these graphics be after 3 years rolled up....
My regular installer was out for today so I decided I would do it, and I like installing, errr well I used too.
I made an appointment to do the truck at the penske leasing company which is almost downtown, and I am in the sticks, so we will say 20 miles and a toll road.
I get there at 10 as we had discussed and i was told the truck would be washed and inside. I see immediately upon pulling into the parking lot that there is a brand new truck parked outside and i know it is theirs by the options on it.
I go inside and find a guy and explain to him blah blah blah and he pulls the truck into the washbay (pretty big, hold 2 full size straight trucks) and he washes it while I sit in my car bored and check emails.
I knwo this is going to be a real ***** of a job as i see this truck is pretty big and I only brought my 6' platform ladder. i was told the truck had no rivets but now I saw it had 2 lines of those 1" buttons running down both sides and based on the graphics I would have to work above them ( a 10" 20' long stripe). I could reach the top on my tippy toes so all was good.
the truck sort of dried off and I went over it with towels and now had to deal with 3 year old rolled up comply graphics. NOT FUN.
I had nowhere to really spread the stuff out as the floor is always wet so I mumbled and talked to myself, how I would never allow myself to get into this situation again.... I will, I always do.lol
I basically had no layouts except a picture of how I did the tanker trucks and it was enough to do what I needed to. the comply feature made it a little easier than conventional 2ml, but the premask was old and troublesome with some graphics as it seemed to be a bit moist or maybe it had been on to long.
i dealt with it...up and down my ladder at least 200 times.
the wash bay was so humid I had to take my sweat top off and I was really overheating. The air was so humid and I cursed the day I was born.
After 4.5 hours I finally finished and was so happy to hop back into my car and go back to the office.
I am so sore now, I need a nap.
maybe 54 is a bit to old to be climbing up and down a ladder all day.
here are a couple of pics... I couldnt get to far away from it and it doesnt look like much but those graphics were a lot larger than I expected.
One of my good customers called last week that they had a new straight truck and that they needed me to do the drivers door and the passenger door with new graphics, but that they had graphics for the box that they have had for 3 years ( rolled up in a box). I know this as they had me do 2 of their tanker trucks 3 years ago. It's all Mobil graphics and esso.
the graphics came from the US and probably from a pretty large company. Everything was comply and was done very well. The issue I was uncertain of was how would these graphics be after 3 years rolled up....
My regular installer was out for today so I decided I would do it, and I like installing, errr well I used too.
I made an appointment to do the truck at the penske leasing company which is almost downtown, and I am in the sticks, so we will say 20 miles and a toll road.
I get there at 10 as we had discussed and i was told the truck would be washed and inside. I see immediately upon pulling into the parking lot that there is a brand new truck parked outside and i know it is theirs by the options on it.
I go inside and find a guy and explain to him blah blah blah and he pulls the truck into the washbay (pretty big, hold 2 full size straight trucks) and he washes it while I sit in my car bored and check emails.
I knwo this is going to be a real ***** of a job as i see this truck is pretty big and I only brought my 6' platform ladder. i was told the truck had no rivets but now I saw it had 2 lines of those 1" buttons running down both sides and based on the graphics I would have to work above them ( a 10" 20' long stripe). I could reach the top on my tippy toes so all was good.
the truck sort of dried off and I went over it with towels and now had to deal with 3 year old rolled up comply graphics. NOT FUN.
I had nowhere to really spread the stuff out as the floor is always wet so I mumbled and talked to myself, how I would never allow myself to get into this situation again.... I will, I always do.lol
I basically had no layouts except a picture of how I did the tanker trucks and it was enough to do what I needed to. the comply feature made it a little easier than conventional 2ml, but the premask was old and troublesome with some graphics as it seemed to be a bit moist or maybe it had been on to long.
i dealt with it...up and down my ladder at least 200 times.
the wash bay was so humid I had to take my sweat top off and I was really overheating. The air was so humid and I cursed the day I was born.
After 4.5 hours I finally finished and was so happy to hop back into my car and go back to the office.
I am so sore now, I need a nap.
maybe 54 is a bit to old to be climbing up and down a ladder all day.
here are a couple of pics... I couldnt get to far away from it and it doesnt look like much but those graphics were a lot larger than I expected.
