Engine starts
Metz antenna
http://www.saltyjohn.co.uk/metzmantavhfantennaaerial.htm
Deck cleaning
I used this - and jolly good it is too
http://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-heavy-duty-degreaser-5ltr/88668
Graphics go on
Oivey, I’m getting fat and starting to look old!!
There is something very voyeristic watching oneself. I find it very unsettling. How very odd!
Good thing he didn’t charge by the question… :)
Very helpful video to see it done.
I have seen them at the trade shows. It was rather entertaining when the guy demostrating it took off all the paint on his sample panel. They work by generating heat. With sign vinyl you also end up with a big gooey mess whizzing around on the end of a drill.
If they were that good all the sign guys would be using them. Sadly its a rather horrible nasty job that has to be done now and then.
Like stripping paint and old varnish, theres no quick fix. I wish there were!
Also just to add, recent vinyl can be peeled easily. I could go back to Harmony and peel off all the stripes etc and you wouldn’t even know they had been applied. The original “George Gunn” vinyl on KatieL came off easily. It hadn’t been affected by the UV the way the vinyl on Harmony had been.
Sweating the small stuff indeed! What happened to the utilitarian “sling a couple of lilos and a truck battery in a stripped out shell” quick-and-dirty approach? :-)