Got alot of stenciling to do but not alot of stencils, try this.

If you have alot of stenciling to do but few stencils go to a carpet store and pick up the old carpet they took out of someones house. You can take the carpet and when your stencil gets paint build up on it just lay it on your carpet and walk on it and go back and stencil some more, when its built up again head back to the carpet. I recently had to do a port job where they supplied the stencils and a day or two before I got there I found out instead of plenty of stencils they had one each......one A, one 1, one 2 etc........I went to a carpet store and loaded up on carpet and finished the job.

Good idea. Just don't get shag.

Yeah... thanks for leaving the leftovers in the bed of my truck i took it back with me after the port and used it on some handi-cap stencils.

When using large stencils (like arrow stencils for multiple arrows) I paint 1 - move and situate the stencil then use a 12" window squeegee ($3.95 at local hardware store) and squeegee the paint onto the area to be sprayed. Spray the area and repeat the procedure. Works great and you almost never have drips or paint on the back of the stencil! I recently did an 8 story parking garage with 50 large arrows with this procedure after coming up with it to eliminate the carpet procedure!

Spray and squeegee? I'm missing something but always looking for ideas. Please explain further. thanks!

\\\STRIPES/// wrote on Jan 11, 2007:Go to #5

Spray and squeegee? I'm missing something but always looking for ideas. Please explain further. thanks!

I think he's squeegeeing (sp) the excess wetpaint off so there is no excess build up as he lifts and moves the stencil. That's the way it sound to me anyway.....

Yea, he's squeegeing when he lay's it down to do the next arrow,and pushes the paint in the new unpainted area. Great idea if you use latex and have a ton of arrows to do. I can't see it working with oil, or worse, acetone. Acetone is dry by the time you get it to the next arrow. It would be a mess.

whiteline wrote on Jan 14, 2007:Go to #6

\\\STRIPES/// wrote on Jan 11, 2007:Go to #5

Spray and squeegee? I'm missing something but always looking for ideas. Please explain further. thanks!

I think he's squeegeeing (sp) the excess wetpaint off so there is no excess build up as he lifts and moves the stencil. That's the way it sound to me anyway.....

Yea - exactly - after re-reading my post without being in a lack of sleep induced stupor I see it wasn't too clear! I use latex 90% of the time. I am thinking about trying some acetone paint to enable me to stripe in cold weather though. Does anyone use it all the time? My local SW dealer is not at all familiar with it and I can tell when he gives me advice on clean-up,etc he is blowing smoke up you-know-where!

Acetone works great.. there's lots of posts to search for on the subject, or ask away...