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If you want to find stuff that lasts, talk to the sign folks. I've done a good bit of it. I've painted on aluminum, DiBond (Aluminum), steel, fiberglass, masonite, plexi, pvc, MDO, MDF, Expanded PVC Foam (Sign Foam), glass, concrete, coroplast, and the worst, wood. Sometimes priming is the biggest concern and I would say that aluminum is the hardest to prime properly. I never felt good about painting on bare aluminum. If you are going to paint on aluminum, make sure it's coated. That baked enamel finish is extremely durable. The masonite they make these days is no good. Anyway, no one suggested painting on bare aluminum, but I just wanted to warn against it. There are lots of aluminum products these days. Anything with the word "Museum" in it will cost 4 times what it's worth. DiBond for instance has little advantage over Coated aluminum, .050 or .060, but cost 3-4 times as much. Alucabond is similar. There is one similar product made locally called Reynabond I believe. Comes in 4'x8' sheets. It's the same thing as DiBond, coated on 1 or 2 sides, and it's $48 per sheet. That's less than half the price of DiBond. Now I would begin to know how to apply linen but if I used it, I would surely find out. Anyhow just passing it along.
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