Use a vinyl cutter to make visor shields

[ajlennon]

One of the area coordinators helping me with the 3DCrowd platform was asking me whether his vinyl cutter could cut out visor shields.

Is this something that could work?

[amcewen]

It wouldn't be any quicker than our current approach with a guillotine.

As an aside, if we had more material on rolls and wanted quicker production Try and Lilly have offered to cut some on their press. It's ~£40/knife for it and you could use a few knives (one per visor) at a time across the bed of their press.

However, at present we've got 3000 A3 sheets to get through before we'll need more material, and we've also been looking at stuff that's pre-cut to A4 which wouldn't work with the knives (as there wouldn't be any margin for lining it up)

[ajlennon]

However, at present we've got 3000 A3 sheets to get through before we'll need more material,

What was the cost? And how does that compare to pre-cut A4 sheets?

[plastictactics]

@ajlennon am I right in thinking you are exploring die-cut visors now rather than vinyl cutting - so we can close this issue?

[ajlennon]

@plastictactics not quite yet - there's a chap who wants to try vinyl cutting in the next couple of days which will give us a clear idea. My suspicion is this isn't going to be a goer

[plastictactics]

OK please bear with my issue purge - I am going to close this based on our collective hunch that it isn't viable and welcome a reopening if we are proved wrong by your contact :)

[ajlennon]

Reopening this as John Barnes Wilslow has had success vinyl cutting a visor with a craft cutter in 30s. So might be useful to us

https://youtu.be/z2ZjgxT1vmk