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I saw this crew at work and they:

  1. Had a better time than I thought possible testing adhesives
  2. Did a great job, and
  3. Have great ideas to make the donor wall even better and to recognize those who contribute to MakeICT in other ways as well.

Kudos!

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Well, I think the results were pretty conclusive… A little bit of green frog tape on the back of a sign and then hot glue worked incredibly well!

To complete the test, I took the largest sign on the wall and hung kilogram spools of filament off of it. I got up to 8 kg (just under 20 lb) before the sign came off. There was no damage to the paint from the glue!

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Thanks so much Brad and Dan for the help today, the wall looks great and I really like the prospects of hot glue!

And even if it fails we know it’ll be easy to get a sign back up because Brad is a very enthusiastic hot glue-er!

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Yes… 60% of my projects are 80% hot glue.

Thanks @Jojo for the suggestion that allowed me to publicly get my glue on!

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Im so glad you had fun getting your glue on!

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I was happy to help with getting the signs put back up. I think the project turned out looking really great. Now it’s time for more signs to be made and added to the collection. :slight_smile:

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Hi everyone, I’ve learned two things since 2023. First, hot glue works for a few months, but signs still fall down. We tried.

Second, many donors actually don’t want their name to be 2ft wide, and my signs were taking up a lot of space, so I’d like to go with a smaller solution. 1/4 cinder block size for donations say… $500-$5000, and a full block for over $5000?

SO I’m switching gears again and making vinyl signs that take up less space. They might still come unstick. We’ll see!

Still open to feedback and still trying to low-key get out of the whole project, I kept thinking if I did a bad enough job somebody else would take it but still no luck! So the journey continues…

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I wonder if we could get a magnetic board/metal sheet up on that wall and make all the donor thingies have magnets on them? Easy to move or take down and there would only need to be like…4-6 screws to hold it up depending on the size?

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It would be fun to be able to rearrange…

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Dang, that would have been a great suggestion a month ago.

I’ve made quite a few vinyl signs now but if they don’t work I’ll do magnets next! :slight_smile:

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Magnets is a great idea. However the new vinyl stickers you have up so far look great!
Are you cleaning the surface before applying the stickers? Alcohol wipes maybe? Any dust/oil would definitely shorten the adhesive lifespan.
Great work so far!

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I especially like the :star: logo!