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Re: food safe neon coating
Posted By: SVP Neon Equipment In Response To: Re: food safe neon coating (chris.oh)
Date: Thursday, 26 September 2013, at 10:41 a.m.
> Thanks everybody. I ordered a can of the
> smoke plasti dip spray from amazon, and will
> do a test piece. I don't expect great
> results, but it is worth a try. I like the
> idea of thinning black silicone, but the
> spray can seems considerably easier. I agree
> it would be the perfect coating, but I don't
> know how well it would thin, and might get
> pretty costly. If the plasti-dip doesn't do
> the trick, I will probably drop the whole
> concept as it really isn't worth the added
> effort for the amount of signs we do in this
> particular application. We've made 6 signs
> for them already, but we always get
> complaints when they don't have infinite
> dimming capabilities... what are ya going to
> do?> I did some poking around on the web, and it
> seems the plasti dip is used to black out
> tail lights by some modern 'hot rodders.'
> They have had mixed results as to it's
> effectiveness, but some folks don't know how
> to work a rattle can. I guess I will just
> have to try it out.You could always just make a plexi box to contain the sign and use a *conventional* core/coil transformer and use a standard external infinitely adjustable neon dimmer.
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