Tried to put up this dragon design onto my wall at home and ran into a few problems. Some people have had problems with the Oracal 631 vinyl material not lifting off the liner with even the highest tack tapes and I was one of them Thursday night. I squeegeed the front and back of the design like some have suggested and used a high-tack tape similar to the one Oracal recommends. I took it home and squeegeed it again. Taped it into position and proceeded to peel the backer from the application tape. The design was coming off good for a bit then I started running into problems with the more intricate smaller portions of the design. Laid it back down, rubbed over the non-lifting area but I could not get the thing to release from the backer after a few tries. I then coaxed it along with a fingernail and proceeded until the next snag. I kept going over it with the squeegee to try and get the tape to grab to the vinyl but no luck. Finally laid down some of the design onto the wall to do it in stages but then I had a problem with it not coming off the application tape. Fixed that but I finally gave up on when it was clear I couldn’t get a large section of the design to release from the liner. I ripped the design off the wall and chucked it the trash. (Sorry, it was late I didn’t get any pictures.)

The next day I did some research and busted out about 12 designs of various detail levels, including 2 small dragon designs (weeded one in reverse) and 2 large dragon designs to see if some of the vinyl pieces were just too small to get a good bite with the tape. I also lowered the cutting force on the cutter on the 2 larger designs and I was going to do that on another small dragon but I had to leave and feed my parent’s dogs as they were babysitting at my brother’s house. Anyway, I took the designs home and rubbed some isopropyl alcohol on the designs to clean off any oil from my hands that may have been on the designs.

I had absolutely no problem getting the reverse dragon design onto my wall. It released from the liner without a problem and came off the application tape and onto the wall without incident. I’m feeling better now – but not so confident for me to run out and buy the 12 color pack of material. So I guess it’s just brown design for awhile until I am sure I can give these out for people to install themselves without a big hassle.