2003 sunline decals

campingne · 08-01-2009, 08:52 AM

Hello
I beleive that i have read somewhere on this site that there was a dealer that may have had decals for sale. My brother in-law just purchased a 2003 2370 yesterday. The rear sunline decal is in bad shape. It has a tear in it and it has started to peel. If anyone knows of decals could you please let me know. I have told him about this site so hopefully he will join soon.

Thanks Chris

**kanyonkitty** · 08-01-2009, 07:08 PM

MakersMark had some Sunline decals for sale at the Buttonwood get to gether. After I purchased my '03 T-320, I contacted him and he had sold all that he had. I tried to contact the person that Makers Mark recommended, but got no replies.

I am hoping to find the "SR slide room" decals as one is totally gone and the other one is not fairing very well either. I am going to try to see if the local decal place might be able to reproduce it.

Kitty

campingne · 08-02-2009, 06:36 AM

Hi Kitty
Please let me know if you come acroos any options for decals. I will post it if i am able to locate any.
Thank you
Chris

**HappyCampers** · 08-03-2009, 05:16 PM

Kitty,
I bought some decals from Jay at the M&G, and I may have purchased a slide room decal. Anyway, I have a contact that can and will reproduce any decal I can give/show him. He is a friend of mine that letters my fleet of trucks at work. He recently purchased a $30K thermal imaging vinyl printer that makes reproducing the type of decals we need very easy and cost effective. If I have one here at home it will make it even easier. If I don't, a good picture of a decal in decent shape will do the trick. If you would like me to investigate this further just let me know. His shop is a whopping 300 yards from my front porch here in downtown Wellsville so it isn't any inconvenience.
Chris, if you are also interested just let me know. I'll see what I can do.

EMD_Driver · 08-03-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by HappyCampers

Kitty,
I bought some decals from Jay at the M&G, and I may have purchased a slide room decal. Anyway, I have a contact that can and will reproduce any decal I can give/show him. He is a friend of mine that letters my fleet of trucks at work. He recently purchased a $30K thermal imaging vinyl printer that makes reproducing the type of decals we need very easy and cost effective. If I have one here at home it will make it even easier. If I don't, a good picture of a decal in decent shape will do the trick. If you would like me to investigate this further just let me know. His shop is a whopping 300 yards from my front porch here in downtown Wellsville so it isn't any inconvenience.
Chris, if you are also interested just let me know. I'll see what I can do.

Please check into this! Kitty and I would like to have some sharp looking decals, to go with our sharp looking Sunline!

Gary

frank · 08-03-2009, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by HappyCampers

Kitty,
I bought some decals from Jay at the M&G, and I may have purchased a slide room decal. Anyway, I have a contact that can and will reproduce any decal I can give/show him. He is a friend of mine that letters my fleet of trucks at work. He recently purchased a $30K thermal imaging vinyl printer that makes reproducing the type of decals we need very easy and cost effective. If I have one here at home it will make it even easier. If I don't, a good picture of a decal in decent shape will do the trick. If you would like me to investigate this further just let me know. His shop is a whopping 300 yards from my front porch here in downtown Wellsville so it isn't any inconvenience.
Chris, if you are also interested just let me know. I'll see what I can do.

Lowell,

Please do look into it. I will need a couple decals for mine, and I've been looking into reproducing them myself, but it certainly wouldn't happen on a professional grade machine. Would love to see what he could do it for cost wise.

Thanks!

Frank

2beagles · 08-04-2009, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by campingne

Hello
I beleive that i have read somewhere on this site that there was a dealer that may have had decals for sale. My brother in-law just purchased a 2003 2370 yesterday. The rear sunline decal is in bad shape. It has a tear in it and it has started to peel. If anyone knows of decals could you please let me know. I have told him about this site so hopefully he will join soon.

Thanks Chris

Was that the one at Dufour's in Fitchburg? If so, that's a nice coach!
The only thing I noticed wrong with it was the rear decal.

Stoltzfus still has front decals for sale. I think they're a little larger.
Their ebay store link is HERE

**HappyCampers** · 08-04-2009, 04:28 PM

Ok, I went up to see my buddy after work, with the decals I bought from Jay in tow. He took off the masking and took a good look at the decals. After a little looking in some trade publications he is sure that he can reproduce a very close version of our decals. The only issue may be the slightly metallic look in some of the colors (not all of them have this anyway) as he can't seem to find a source for this. I'm now going to send some files to my younger brother (he is a graphic designer) to "digitize" so they they can be printed. I'll try to keep everyone posted on the progres of this venture, but if we can get a good idea which decals are needed the most we could start there. Also if anyone has the images in a JPeg, vector, or PDF format you can send them to me to forward to my brother. My regular E-mail addy is LNewcomerII@gmail.com.

EMD_Driver · 08-05-2009, 04:33 AM

I talked to Jan yesterday and got some pictures of some of what she has. I've uploaded the pictures to Photobucket and HERE's a link to the album... She's going to see what all she has and let me/us know...

campingne · 08-06-2009, 02:53 PM

2beagles-
Yes he bought the camper from Dufours in Fitchburg. We picked it up yesterday and he is getting it ready today. We are going to Wilgus SP in Vermont tomorrow morning, for a few days. Thank you for the link to the ebay store for the decals. I will talk to my brother in law this weekend.

happycampers-
I would like more info on the decals that your friend may be able to print out. Maybe you could find out an aprox. cost and quality. When you know the info. you might be able to get a qty. from everyone who is interested. That may make it better for your neighbor so He will know if it is worth doing.
Please keep me posted

Thank you both
Chris

**HappyCampers** · 08-06-2009, 04:35 PM

I got a cost estimate on the large "Sun" decals. Ryan said that they should cost about $35, that was with him doing the computer work to ready the images for the printer. Of course the more we buy the less they will cost. I told him that there are many variations of the decals so its hard to determine how many, and which ones we will need.
To help defray some of the cost I've enlisted the help of my younger brother, who is a graphic designer and has a lot of experience with this stuff, to do the computer work. The first decal he is working on is the SR (slide room) decal. He has about 2.5 hours tied up in that image alone. He told me that they won't all take that long but that the SR decal has a lot of detail and is taking longer because he wants it to be just right. The only real problem that he is running into is matching the color on the decal to the pantone color # for printing. Its hard to match the color with just a photograph to work from. So right now we are looking at a few solutions to this problem. I'll definately keep everyone up to date on this experimental run.
Oh, the material that these will be printed on is a much better material that was orig. used by Sunline. The orig. Sunline decals are a laminated ink jet print. Where as the new decals are going to be thermal printed onto a superior material with a life expecancy of 15 years.

EMD_Driver · 08-06-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by HappyCampers

The only real problem that he is running into is matching the color on the decal to the pantone color # for printing. Its hard to match the color with just a photograph to work from. So right now we are looking at a few solutions to this problem. I'll definately keep everyone up to date on this experimental run.

I used to have a PMS chart, from when I worked in printing. If I can find it, I'll see if I can get a very close estimate of the proper PMS number for the colors...