Scrap Vinyl

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

Everybody saves their scrap vinyl from pieces that got messed up during print. To just the extra waste that goes along with making signs. My question is what does everyone do with these random sized pieces of vinyl. How do you store them. I can't think of anything else except for a giant pile under the table. Does anybody else have different ideas.

 

[J Hill Designs]

circular file cabinet usually

 

[MatthewTimothy]

I usually add mine to my site and sell as is. I sell a few, but it is mentioned that it comes with NO WARRANTY

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

I usually add mine to my site and sell as is. I sell a few, but it is mentioned that it comes with NO WARRANTY

I usually use it for sheeting on sign blanks and such. My question mainly was how do you store it. Besides the circular file cabinet... which I seem to be using more and more as my pile grows ever larger.

 

[J Hill Designs]

ahh pat uses the larger rectangular file cabinet...

 

[visual800]

you could always put it on ebay so the cricut users will have an internet orgasm! They love them some scraps

 

[signage]

Make paste-e's for the local strip clubs

 

[rjssigns]

We send boxes of our yield to Syble Hopp school and nursing homes. Gives them a new item to use on craft day.

 

[signguy 55]

I've given my stuff to a few day care centers and a couple of school teachers. They would usually just come and get everything I had. They told me the kids love making stuff like their initials and sticking them on stuff.

 

[Letterbox Mike]

My take has always been it costs you way more money in time trying to organize and sort those scraps, and then dig through it to find just the piece you need, than it would cost you to just use a new roll of material. I don't think I've ever seen a shop organize those scraps in any intelligible way.

We either donate it or pitch it. We have 2 big 55-gallon trash cans with wheels that we fill up with scrap vinyl and rigid substrates that we donate to a local youth art program, anything that doesn't fit in the cans goes in the dumpster.

 

[gabagoo]

My sister loves to use it on the carpeting. it is really amazing what the vacuum misses.... I like her to use it around my printers and work areas.

 

[sardocs]

I bought an old blueprint cabinet with 8 drawers that measure 38" wide x 32" deep x 6" tall. I put corresponding coloured dots on the front of each drawer. When the drawers get more than half full the rest of the scraps get the dumpster ride.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

What are you talking about? We wrap vehicle with it.

 

[john1]

Throw it away, vinyl is too cheap to worry about saving a 6x3" piece.

 

[showcase 66]

First, I only keep if it is bigger than 6" x 36" but I usually forget that I have a piece big enough to use and use the roll or the right color is on the machine already and will just use it.

I have 2 piles one with black white and red and another with all other colors. in piles under my tables. My son will come and pick through it to get what he wants to play with. Friends and family that want little chit I tell them to find it out of those piles. If its not in there or they cant find something big enough, they pay "off the roll" price. Usually they find something to work.

What usually ends up happening is that the clutter from it irritates me and I will throw it all away.

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

Throw it away, vinyl is too cheap to worry about saving a 6x3" piece.

Too cheap: not if it's a two square foot piece of 3M HIP Flourescent orange.

 

[HulkSmash]

traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaash

 

[boxerbay]

we once kept adding it to itself and ended up with a what looked like a staples rubber band ball larger than a basketball that weighed like 30 lbs. it was the shop "medicine ball" we would chuck it at each other when things were slow. oh yeah we once made a t-rex sculpture out of it. it just sat in one corner of the shop and we each kept adding scraps to it. it stood about 3 feet tall. took about 4 weeks to make.