Anyone have a source or an idea where to find 24" rolls???
Raymond
Anyone have a source or an idea where to find 24" rolls???
Raymond
RST Performance Racing
www.rstperformance.com
where'd you see it? you're not refering to the number plates like the ALMS cars have at night?
Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
for sale: 2003 Audi A4 Quattro, clean, serviced, dark green, auto, sunroof, tan leather with 75K miles.
IT-7 #57 RX-7 race car
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BMW 2003 M3 cab, sun car.
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It's very cool stuff. I used it when i was building show and prototype cars for dashboards and stuff. Give it some volts and it lights up well, and is very thin. But $$$$$. THere is a VERY reflective adhesive backed material, like you see on trucks in the red/white pattern, and I remember the Racers Group porsches used it, but it is huge money as well.
Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
for sale: 2003 Audi A4 Quattro, clean, serviced, dark green, auto, sunroof, tan leather with 75K miles.
IT-7 #57 RX-7 race car
Porsche 1973 911E street/fun car
BMW 2003 M3 cab, sun car.
GMC Sierra Tow Vehicle
New England Region
lateapex911(at)gmail(dot)com
If you are referring to the lighted type they are electroluminescent polymers that are driven by a DC/AC inverter in most cases. I've got some of the stuff although it is pricey. Comes in many colors, blue and green being very bright due to efficiency and not using an intermediate fluorophore to shift the output wavelength dramatically.
You'll find it a number of places, but make sure you match impedance of the driver with the panels - I fried the inverter in car #43 at the past 13hr enduro which caused the car driver some headache on the qualifying grid. Smoke and bad smells are not what you want before a night qualifying.
R
So...I'm sitting here with an ohm-meter...one probe jammed in my mouth...the other someplace 'uncomfortable'. What voltage do these things run at, so I can calculate my 'impedance' ?You'll find it a number of places, but make sure you match impedance of the driver with the panels - [/b]
hhahaha, I think he means the DC/AC driver, not the nut behind the wheel.
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James Brostek
MARRS #28 ITB Golf
PMF Motorsports
Racing and OEM parts from Bildon Motorsport, Hoosier Tires from Radial Tires
"THere is a VERY reflective adhesive backed material, like you see on trucks in the red/white pattern, and I remember the Racers Group porsches used it, but it is huge money as well."
Be careful where you use it: "Metallic (reflective) numbers and class letters are prohibited." GCR 17.5.2.
Bill Denton
02 Audi TT225QC
95 Tahoe
Memphis
King rat motorsports sells the lighted panels. expensive....
http://www.kingratmotorsports.com/products.php
Marcus
Marcus
miller-motorsports.com - Its always an Adventure (and woefully outdated)
1.6 ITE/SPU/ST2 Turbo Miata (in pieces... err progress)
We use ScotchLite panels for our numbers. It's a common reflective - not glow-in-the-dark or photoluminescent - vinyl film, used on street signs. It's not awful expensive and is readily available in up to 24" width. I order it in cut pieces from a place that has an eBay store.
K
ok, I spent a lot of time looking stuff up...
The ScotchLite stuff looks like you can find it for as low as about $10.00 - $15.00 a yard.
The electroluminescent stuff is friggen way awsome!!! Sent out some e-mails to a few companies to get some costs, and brainstorm about a few ideas...
I still think that someone has to sell glow in the dark material... you see it on "fire Escape" stickers and what not. I can also find tape, but I want sheets to possibly use as a background for a "touring car" style number plate. I can't find anything on the net. If anyone can help please do!!!
Thank you all for the current input, I learned a lot of new cool stuff!!!
Raymond "I will probably do Kirk's idea, as it is affordable, but I will dream of the electroluminescent stuff" Blethen
RST Performance Racing
www.rstperformance.com
ScotchLite is the stuf!!!
Ray: I used to use the stuff you are looking for when I was in the Army. We used two one-inch stirps as 'cats eyes' on the camo helmet band around the back of our helmets. But our stuff came into the supply room in rolls one inch wide.
Have you tried the 3-M website?
Bill Stevens - Mbr # 103106
BnS Racing www.bnsracing.net
92 ITA Saturn
83 ITB Shelby Dodge Charger
Sponsors - Race-Keeper Data/Video Aquisition Systems www.race-keeper.com
Simpson Performance Products - simpsonraceproducts.com
Ray: Look at www(dot)glowinc(dot)com - Glow in the dark paint! In colors, no less! Sit down when you look at the price, though.
Bill Stevens - Mbr # 103106
BnS Racing www.bnsracing.net
92 ITA Saturn
83 ITB Shelby Dodge Charger
Sponsors - Race-Keeper Data/Video Aquisition Systems www.race-keeper.com
Simpson Performance Products - simpsonraceproducts.com
Back in my sign shop days, we experimented with some glow stuff in response to a top-secret marketing inquiry from a friend-of-a-customer in England. We never found anything that met the requirements (ie. actually glowed bright and long enough that anyone could really see it).
K
PS - turned out that the project was one of Branson's balloon stunts. He wanted graphics that would have been visible from the ground at night but I don't think it ever happened, with the technology of the time.
Kirk, I love how your posts often start out with, "Back in my _____ days.." Is there a field you haven't worked in??? Junior high teacher, signmaker, policy analyist, race car builder... good stuff, and interesting post. I like this thread better than the BMW thread "April...SIR".Back in my sign shop days, .......PS - turned out that the project was one of Branson's balloon stunts. He wanted graphics that would have been visible from the ground at night but I don't think it ever happened, with the technology of the time.
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
for sale: 2003 Audi A4 Quattro, clean, serviced, dark green, auto, sunroof, tan leather with 75K miles.
IT-7 #57 RX-7 race car
Porsche 1973 911E street/fun car
BMW 2003 M3 cab, sun car.
GMC Sierra Tow Vehicle
New England Region
lateapex911(at)gmail(dot)com
Judging by the capacitive discharge of your ass, I'd say somewhere between "Tazer" and "electric chair".So...I'm sitting here with an ohm-meter...one probe jammed in my mouth...the other someplace 'uncomfortable'. What voltage do these things run at, so I can calculate my 'impedance' ?
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That's actually pretty much it, except for the six studious years it took for me to get my bachelor's degree. The joke when I was in art school was that, as a designer, I was a great engineer. The engineers I worked with in my internship (previous major) thought i spent way too much time making things pretty.... Is there a field you haven't worked in???[/b]
The trick is to not be REALLY good at anything.
K
Care to pull my finger, Kearney ?Judging by the capacitive discharge of your ass, I'd say somewhere between "Tazer" and "electric chair".
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Judging by the capacitive discharge of your ass, I'd say somewhere between "Tazer" and "electric chair".
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You sure it's not an WMD?
George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
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