How to apply decal stickers to a helmet without wrinkles?

[Torhaantje 66]

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone has some tricks on how to apply decals ( sticker, not waterslide) to a helmet without wrinkles.

Especially applying round decals on the helmet gives me ........

Is it possible to use Microsol ( same as with waterslides?)

 

Rick

 

 

[Fuijo 880]

Lay the sticker gently on the curved surface so that only the very centre sticks down. Use a narrow, but blunt object to push down on the sticker in a cross-shape.

You should then have four quarters that are unstuck and bowing outward away from the surface because there is too much material to lie flat.

Then take a hairdryer and heat the sticker gently until the bowed parts start to shrink. Work gently from the centre outward pushing the sticker

down. Don't do too much at once and keep applying heat periodically as you go.

I've never used Microsol on a sticker, but I think it unlikely to work well.

[TurnipJF 9192]

Good advice, but I found the unedited version more amusing. The mental image of someone beating a decal with a hairdryer...

 

[Fuijo 880]

Erm, I'm not sure what you're talking about. That version is unedited. ??

[TurnipJF 9192]

Hmm. A short while ago, a colleague and I both read it as "Then take a hairdryer and beat the sticker gently until the bowed parts start to shrink."

 

It gave us a good laugh.

 

Admittedly the screen we read it on was quite dirty, so it is not out of the question that a bit of dirt may have happened to fall at the bottom of the "h", making it look like a "b".

 

 

[Torhaantje 66]

Thanks Fuijo for your tips!

Regards,

Rick