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Re: vinyl cuts not sticking to bumpers

My team used heat transfer vinyl. I take classes off campus of my main school, where we have acess to a lot more technology, so we had a vinyl cutter I could use. I messed up cutting so I was able to use bumper scraps to practice ironing on the vinyl. I'm not sure the temperature but I tuned the iron to the right area so if I pushed down on each number for 30 seconds l, it would melt perfectly in. We took a lot of hits last weekend, and it scuffed the vinyl but hasn't peeled or truly messed it up.

*Note- I wasn't at the school that had the vinyl cutter and heat press so I used a normal iron for clothes.
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