997 gts wheels silver outline thickness
02-13-2014, 09:56 PM
#31
Looks Great. I've always felt that the outline / ring is a must for black rims!
Just to share my experience to get better result for the outline... I went to a professional print shop to laser-cut a set of high-quality-outdoor-stickers that are the size of the ring:
-first attempt was to just put the stickers on the black plastic-dipped rims. Looked perfect, but they came off pretty quickly after a few sprite drives (probably would have stayed if it's on the originally aluminium surface).
- then I removed all the ring stickers. There were left over of sticker (inner circle of the stickers), so I used them as masking tapes to put on the rim - perfectly rounded, then spray-paint over the plastic-dipped rim. The result was pretty good. Probably would be better if I had been more patient when spray-painting.
It's been about 3 months now and still looking good.
Just to share my experience to get better result for the outline... I went to a professional print shop to laser-cut a set of high-quality-outdoor-stickers that are the size of the ring:
-first attempt was to just put the stickers on the black plastic-dipped rims. Looked perfect, but they came off pretty quickly after a few sprite drives (probably would have stayed if it's on the originally aluminium surface).
- then I removed all the ring stickers. There were left over of sticker (inner circle of the stickers), so I used them as masking tapes to put on the rim - perfectly rounded, then spray-paint over the plastic-dipped rim. The result was pretty good. Probably would be better if I had been more patient when spray-painting.
It's been about 3 months now and still looking good.
02-21-2014, 10:21 PM
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Looks Great. I've always felt that the outline / ring is a must for black rims!
Just to share my experience to get better result for the outline... I went to a professional print shop to laser-cut a set of high-quality-outdoor-stickers that are the size of the ring:
-first attempt was to just put the stickers on the black plastic-dipped rims. Looked perfect, but they came off pretty quickly after a few sprite drives (probably would have stayed if it's on the originally aluminium surface).
- then I removed all the ring stickers. There were left over of sticker (inner circle of the stickers), so I used them as masking tapes to put on the rim - perfectly rounded, then spray-paint over the plastic-dipped rim. The result was pretty good. Probably would be better if I had been more patient when spray-painting.
It's been about 3 months now and still looking good.
Just to share my experience to get better result for the outline... I went to a professional print shop to laser-cut a set of high-quality-outdoor-stickers that are the size of the ring:
-first attempt was to just put the stickers on the black plastic-dipped rims. Looked perfect, but they came off pretty quickly after a few sprite drives (probably would have stayed if it's on the originally aluminium surface).
- then I removed all the ring stickers. There were left over of sticker (inner circle of the stickers), so I used them as masking tapes to put on the rim - perfectly rounded, then spray-paint over the plastic-dipped rim. The result was pretty good. Probably would be better if I had been more patient when spray-painting.
It's been about 3 months now and still looking good.
