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I painted a banner..yes it was fun. Yardstick layout,lines to clean off,runs... It will be mounted on a corrugated steel wall,semi-permenent. 16 oz vinyl,webbing,re-inforced corners,D-rings. SIze is 26'x 5'... What do you think for attaching it to the wall? Wall faces northwest..here comes the prevailing wind!
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THE most positive method is to run two 2x2 or 1x2 stringers top and bottom the whole length. Use body washers, place them over the grommet holes, run a screw into the 2x2. Keep tensioning the banner as you move left to right, then pull down and away as you run the bottom screws in. You did say semi-permanent. This method keeps the banner taught and unflappable (izzat a word?) when the wind howls.
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I was thinkin...screws with big washers .Only instead of stringers..mount right on the high spots in the corrugations.There are no grommets.Not yet anyway I dont know Pierre...unflappable may not be a word but its kind of a refreshing thought if you let yer mind wander a bit.
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Check your local lumber yard or Patio Center...they make "cottegated" lumber that is use to support corregated fiberglass panel used to cover patios. You can then attach them top and bottom to the wall and plain ol' 2x2's for the ends! Then washers and screws will be the way to mount it.
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My resoning for using a stringer rather than just in the metal is that with the wood stringer you can use the screws to lever the banner with pull tension. You can stretch it really tight. With the screw just in the metal there's very little thread gripping and the screw tends to tilt toward the pull. With the banner tensioned tightly in all directions there's virtually no "flappability". We have a 7'x31' banner mounted on a corrugated building with stringers here in town that's been up for it's second year now, winter and summer. It's still taught. They're still too cheap to buy a real sign.
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