Re: [bolger] Painting Tyvek Sails
Tony,
I've no experience with Tyvek, apart from noticing it being used on a nearby housing job recently, but I have a couple of ideas:
1. Rather than painting it, maybe you could dye it some dark colour.
2. Leave the sail as it is, change the name of yr boat to something like Tyvek Challenger, and see if you can get an advertising subsidy from the Tyvek people.
Howard
I've no experience with Tyvek, apart from noticing it being used on a nearby housing job recently, but I have a couple of ideas:
1. Rather than painting it, maybe you could dye it some dark colour.
2. Leave the sail as it is, change the name of yr boat to something like Tyvek Challenger, and see if you can get an advertising subsidy from the Tyvek people.
Howard
> I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
> Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
> Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
> labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
> paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
> hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
> the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your
> experience, what
> works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
>
> Tony White
> I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.I think someone once mentioned removing the words with alcohol or
> Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
> Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
> labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
> paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
> hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
> the Bolger Group has done this.
perhaps paint thinner leaving a white sail.
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Gosh Tony, I'd just use regular sail paint..... (after surface prep and
priming). ;-)
Slightly more seriously, permanent markers (poster sized, large office
supply establishments might have them) may be your only hope with Tyvek.
That's SLIPPERY stuff! I doubt Rit fabric dye would take.....
David Romasco
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Subject: [bolger] Painting Tyvek Sails
I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
Tony White
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priming). ;-)
Slightly more seriously, permanent markers (poster sized, large office
supply establishments might have them) may be your only hope with Tyvek.
That's SLIPPERY stuff! I doubt Rit fabric dye would take.....
David Romasco
-----Original Message-----
From: fanthonywhite [mailto:medipak@...]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:07 PM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bolger] Painting Tyvek Sails
I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
Tony White
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To bad you can't dye it some how so that the color was in the fabric,
instead of on it like paint would be. I don't think there are any paints
that are that flexible, though this group has proven the limits of my
knowledge time and again.
HJ
fanthonywhite wrote:
instead of on it like paint would be. I don't think there are any paints
that are that flexible, though this group has proven the limits of my
knowledge time and again.
HJ
fanthonywhite wrote:
>I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
>Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
>Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
>labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
>paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
>hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
>the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
>works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
>
>Tony White
>
>
>
I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
Tony White
Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
Tony White
Not many kinds of paint sticks to tyvek. You might try silkscreen ink though. That is what is printed on tyvek now.
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From: fanthonywhite
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: [bolger] Painting Tyvek Sails
I recently made my first Tyvek sail, and would like to paint it.
Something a little bit more esthetic than the words Tyvek and Home
Wrap repeated over and over. (Though I find some humor in something
labeled House Wrap being used as a boat sail.) Ideally I'd like a
paint that is relatively light, sticks well, covers the wording and
hides it well, and won't crack and peel off later. Surely someone in
the Bolger Group has done this. Please share your experience, what
works and what doesn't work. Thanks for your help.
Tony White
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