victor bogdanov
Active Member
Use whatever paint they paint roadways/mark parking lots with. Maybe have to roughen up the smooth concrete first ?
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Need a floor graphic for indoors that will hold up to automated robotic forklift traffic?!
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victor bogdanov
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JBurton
Signtologist
Yeah, but that's for multicolor rapid installs, where you don't have time to let paint dry. Granted a warehouse with automated forklifts sounds like an expensive operation to shut down while paint dries...
I say make a stencil and use some oil based paint, then give them a rate to redo every 6 months. Retain the stencils, and just pop in there twice a year to refresh the stencils.
That or get with a concrete finisher to see about whatever process they use to etch polished concrete. Not sure if color is an option, but that is part of the concrete, and not likely to go anywhere with traffic.
victor bogdanov
Active Member
Let paint dry once for an hour instead of replacing graphics every 6 months
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
It's not what vinyl you put down on the floor, it's what you put over it. Shrug, I kind of like the previously proposed projector idea. I do admit to some doubts as to being able to project an acceptable image. Perhaps you could rout out a circle say 1/4" deep on the floor. The put the logo on the back of a 1/4" circle of poly or acrylic or whatever. The drop the plastic circle into the hole. Change it when it wears out.
JBurton
Signtologist
That's what I meant, except assuming the paint would still chip up over time.
I was pretty impressed with one that went up down the road from us, it projects into the foyer with minimal ambient light around it. If I'm around here after dark I'll try to snag a pic. The projector is at least 8' from the wall.
petepaz
New Member
you want to sub print on .020 or .030 polycarbonate/lexan and mount a 3m adhesive to the back so it will stick. we do a job for amazon, its a printed square floor graphic with a QR code that a robot rides along and reads. tells them what's on the shelf.
we have done two runs so far for them so it's holding up
we have done two runs so far for them so it's holding up
JBurton
Signtologist
I could see this working, up until some hooman worker comes through dragging their feet and lifts an edge just enough that the robots tear it up from there.
petepaz
New Member
like already mentioned there really isn't anything that is going to be indestructible but this holds up pretty good. (well we haven't gotten any complaints ...yet?)
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
You know this because?
because i see what forklift traffic does to concrete WITHOUT floor graphics.
it just isn't possible that something capable of standing up to that sort of abuse can be cut buy a computerized xacto knife.
do you have any experience with environments with that kind of traffic?
it just isn't possible that something capable of standing up to that sort of abuse can be cut buy a computerized xacto knife.
do you have any experience with environments with that kind of traffic?
your could apply diamondclear, (they will sell it for self install) but, it is not rated for forklift traffic.
i believe only diamondhard holds up to that sort of abuse.
if pete says he has had success installing for amazon, i am impressed, ( we have seen the traffic in an amazon warehouse.) his suggestion would probably be the way to go.
i believe only diamondhard holds up to that sort of abuse.
if pete says he has had success installing for amazon, i am impressed, ( we have seen the traffic in an amazon warehouse.) his suggestion would probably be the way to go.
JBurton
Signtologist
Bob's plan was to have the film under a piece of acrylic or poly, which will not be cut with a plotter, but presumably a router. It could work, aside from the force of the plastic into the vinyl into the concrete causing some marring over time, and inevitably it will crack where fastened down.
Nicholedene
New Member
That's interesting. Thank you for the idea.
Nicholedene
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JBurton
Signtologist
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