Triple Striped Tiller

[john_206]

This one sounds like it should be easy but it aint.
Anyone know how you mask up a pole so that you can paint it in three colours - twisted like a barbers shop pole which only has 2 colours?

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Try to find a tape the size of painted band you want, then start at the bottom and take the tape up the pole in a helical turn, start the tape for the next band colour actually covering where that colour is to go, do the same all the way up until the whole pole is covered with tape, ie, no bare poll at all.
Then remove alternative lengths of tape to reveal the areas you want to paint.
But remember that the whole pole will have to be already painted with one of the colours you want in the bands, before starting to tape.
Or you could save all that mind boglong hassle and buy coloured sign making vynal from a sign maker, and stick them on, or get a sign maker to do it for you.

 

[FullCircle]

Put a helix of masking tape of the required width starting from bottom to top.
Lay a second tape next to it following the line to the top.
Lay a third tape next to the second one, following it to the top.
Remove the second tape. Paint the stripe.
Wait for it to dry, and remask the second tape area
Place a fourth tape next to the third one, and remove the third one. Paint
Place a fifth tape next to the first one. Remove the first one. Paint.

tada!

 

[john_206]

Thanks I agree that the pole needs to be painted one of the coulours first say white yes.
But surely the second part of your plan would mean that by running 1 tape the whole length and removing in strips would give me a blue stripe running into a red stripe and not side by side?????
Anyone got any other ideas?

 

[john_206]

Reply to fullcircle when 2 tapes are run side by side to the top they hide the complete pole leaving no room to lay a third tape alongside tape 2. Told you it wasnt easy.

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

No because the tapes are going to run the whole way from bottom to top, which means each of the two last colours will run parrallel to each other like the tape.
Imagine doing it on a poll a lot longer than you actually want, then cutting it to the proper length when youve done all the painting, thats what it will turn out like.

 

[john_206]

Got a 2 foot length of pole here which is silver. I also have 3 different color rolls of pvc insulating tape and I cant get it to work.
Grab your mops and your tape lads and give it a go.
First one back with the solution wins a coconut

 

[DinghyMan]

Have a look arround the Narrowboat sites as this is commonly done on the fixed part of a narrowboat tiller. Seem to remember it being done with string rather than masking tape though.

Threw out (well was ordered to throw out) loads of old mags last week with a few narrowboat building and painting articles amongst them so info I had has just been recycled - usual timing...

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Hand the whole thing over to a signwriter.

Can I have my coconut now?

 

[john_206]

Isnt part the fun of boating - doing it yourself?
Hand it over to a signwriter indeed. Tut Tut.
No coconut for you my lad.
Bet this is driving you all mad eh?

 

[DinghyMan]

No 'cos you replied to me /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Does that mean I can have it?

 

[geoffatstanpit]

Fairly straightforward solid geometry I think.

Measure the circumference of the pole. Divide this by the number of different colours you want. A

Measure the width of your masking tape. B

Divide B/A. This is the tangent of the angle you need to start winding the tape up the pole.

 

[Gunfleet]

Get your wife to walk past you turning it while you stand still with a red paint brush. Ditto blue, ditto white. Like running a lathe. As long as she keeps her end up all you have to do is make sure your brush don't dribble. This should give you a first class job.

 

[Stemar]

Paint the whole tiller with one colour, the lightest.

Take three rolls of tape of the width you want for each stripe, stick them together with some wide masking tape and make a start. If necessary, add masking tape to hold the tapes in together until you've got a couple of turns on the pole. They should stay in place now as you wind up the rest of the way.

Remove one stripe, paint with second colour, allow to harden, replace tape.

Remove another stripe, paint with third colour. Remove all tape. Admire.

Coconut?

 

[Gunfleet]

Are you saying he's not married and has to resort to tape?

 

[john_206]

You win the coconut. Thats the method that will work. I had managed to wind three different colour tapes around but was having great difficulty keeping them together. By masking lengths of the 3 tapes together with masking tape might just work.
It certainly had a lot of others stumped.
Many Thanks

 

[john_206]

Not married anymore Gunfleet 20yrs was more than enough. Prefer my blowup doll these days she doesn't answer back. Mind you cleaning the bloody thing out is worse than emptying the chemical toilet.

 

[Stemar]

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You win the coconut. Thats the method that will work. I had managed to wind three different colour tapes around but was having great difficulty keeping them together. By masking lengths of the 3 tapes together with masking tape might just work.
It certainly had a lot of others stumped.
Many Thanks

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Not married anymore Gunfleet 20yrs was more than enough. Prefer my blowup doll these days she doesn't answer back. Mind you cleaning the bloody thing out is worse than emptying the chemical toilet.

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[alienzdive]

Thinking back to somthing of a similar principal a friend did sometime ago.

He had to paint a logo on the side of a building so that it could eb seen for miles, but the logo had to be identical, on hte building as to the smaller scale one on all the packaging.

Although you would have to modify this principal, you would get a perfect result. Assuming you have a steady masking hand.

Paint your base colour first,

Plan it out on a graphed piece of paper, or using a computer to get perfect curves with a programme like photo shop.

grid your pole with pensil lines to transpose the graphed lines to the pole. number each square on the pole and the paper.

where your lines on the paper of each the graph and the curve intersect draw this onto the pole, then mask up the pole with tape following the intersection lines.

I hope this makes sense as it is difficult to explain.

The project my mate did had about 5 different colours and was nearly 100metres long by 20 metres high. The pages were A3 delivered from an architect, there were over 100 pages of drawings. to copy onto the side of the building.