hair dryer for drying decals

I was busy applying heat from a hair drier the other day and wndering just how much heat the decal and plastic could stand. I have had it quite hot, almost too hot for your hand, and had no difficulties but generally I will hold the drier about 6-9" away and only use the lowest heat setting. Heat and Microsol really works well on decals covering complex curves. Once when no hair drier was available I used the grill in the oven as the heat source!!!

HEY,
O cool i didnt know that i helps with that. Im gonna have to go on a mission deep into the jungles of my mother bathroom.lol

Randy

I found that using a hair dryer of about 1000W with decals that had been microsoled allowed them to conform around the many curves on one of my resent builds. Curves are no problem know

Cheers Trev

yea thats kinda what i needed it for... doin c/f decvals in cars... lots of curves and angles....
i found a old hairdryer of my mums and it says its 1300 watts... it has a low setting and i tryed that, but i kinda held it far away so the air was almost cool....
now that i know it can do that ill experiment a lil, holding it closer....
it should work with the microsol im using ?

Hmmmm??? I use a hair dryer with decals, but not to dry them. The heat softens up the decals and works like a softening solution. I've found that this works really well for getting decals to go around curves and conform to uneven areas.

Murray

HEY,
Personally i wouldnt, cuz i would think that the decals would curl and crinkle with the extra heat, but im not sure. Maybe it wont, but i wouldt do it anyway. Decals are pretty dry after about ten minutes anyway, and if that is too long of a wait for this is the wrong hobby.lol

Randy