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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:03:45 -0600
From: Bob White <bob@bob-white.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: More T-Shirt Stuff
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:35:32 -0400
Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Bob White wrote:
> >   I'm going to try the Wal-
> > Mart service, and the iron on transfers.
> >
> > Bob W.
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> I'd advise you to skip the iron on transfers.  I've got some of the 
> sheet material here.  It looks fine, until the first time you wash it.  
> At that point, it starts to look like a sheet of copier paper glued to a 
> shirt.
> 
> I think the process is that the transfer paper is composed of hot-glue 
> on wax paper.  You spray ink on the hot glue with a printer, then an 
> iron melts the glue into the fabric of the shirt.  The hot-glue starts 
> clear, buy yellows differently than the fabric as it ages, and causes 
> the square area of the iron on to stretch differently than the rest.  
> The process is great for a very small quantity that is needed for one 
> day, such as to identify security personnel at an event, but it is 
> terrible for a shirt that you actually want to keep wearing.
> 
Thanks Ernest,

The message came in about 5 minutes after I ordered the transfers. :(

They do say theirs are much better than everyone else's.

Bob W.

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