mike ammirato Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Doe's anyone have any info or how to's on building an american flag?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobinFL Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Mike check out wowlights.com. They have a nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike ammirato Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 thanks Bob that was a good start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Mike send me a PM with your email address and I will send you some videos of a flag I made last summer for the 4th of July.Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisquit476 Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Flag specs:http://www.usflag.org/flagspecs.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Attached is a picture of a flag I made last year. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I finally got a couple videos uploaded on YouTube of my flag."TAPS"Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike ammirato Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 thats pretty nice what did you put over the rope lights or are they just red and white lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 It's regular rope light of red and white. Held in place with a plastic channel made for rope light.It reflects the stripes really well. I used high gloss paint for that purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 You might want to talk to Dave. He built one out of LEDs. Here are a couple of pictures from his web site:Here's a video of the flag in action: http://www.severex.com/videos/2007_flag.wmv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Ed Slonka Jr wrote: It's regular rope light of red and white. Held in place with a plastic channel made for rope light.It reflects the stripes really well. I used high gloss paint for that purpose.Is that just a 4x8 sheet of plywood? If so, I take it the length to the next cut point is just folded behind the back, and blacked out as needed?Anything fancy on the stars and blue field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Yes it's a 5/8" sheet of plywood but I cut it down to 4' x 6'.I then took the actual measurements off an actual 4 x 6 nylon flag for the field and stars and stripes.I made a star pattern out of masonite and traced them onto the field and useda 100 set of blue lights for the field spaced as evenly as possible. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Farmer Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Made my flag using a sheet of 4x8' PVC board. Applied a vinyl decal (printed by my local sign guy) and drilled holes in the appropriate locations. Total of 16 channels, an additional channels was used to runs strobes attaches to the back of the board.It is very durable and I expect to be able to use it for several years. It's mounted on two 8ft tall angle iron that I just push into the ground.I'd be glad to answer any questions about this project.I acutally rented it out last year for 10 days and made $1000 bucks.See video here: Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Slonka Jr Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Nice job Frank, especially with geneating some income too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Hoffman Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Please send flag info. It would be much appreciated.Rick rmljcl@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Hoffman Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 I would like any additional info on the flag. Type of lights etc. I am planning a large patriotic display at my fireworks store in Missouri. Any help would be greatly appreiciated. rmljcl@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bisquit476 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 You could also check with David at holidaycoro.com, he's got a 6ft by 4ft, 2900+ light flag kit that includes 2 pre-sequenced LOR songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severex Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Dave here.I've received a couple of requests for a "how-to" for my flag since Steve posted some photos in this thread, so here is a rough draft. This is a project that must be started early - Like May/June. And even earlier if you want to get off-season pricing on the over 3,000 LEDs that it takes to build it.http://www.severex.com/xmas-flag-v2I'm not on the forum all that much, so PM me if you have questions.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrymac Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 last year (2009) I built a 4' X 6' Flag from a sheet of 1/2 plywood. Drilled 50 holes for the Stars (white mini's), 100 for the blue field (blue mini's). Painted the entire flag white, then used blue Painters tape for the blue backgound in the field and cut out the 50 stars from the blue tape with an exacto knife (used a small wood star as a patern), this allowed the white background to show through and Red Duct Tape for the red stripes (left the white background for the white stripes. (shoud have used MDF since the plywood splitered a little where I drilled the holes). (cost for paint, tape etc was around $40.00, not including any of the labor)Cut red rope light for the red stripes and screwed in small clamps to hold the rope light, and white rope light for the white stripes etc.The entire flag weighed a TON but worked. I found that the rope light was a bit to directional and had to often repsosition the rope to allow the lights to look even as the rope light sagged.Total time was somewhere around 6 hours.This year, I purchsed 3 of the coro flags from Holidaycoro.com (1 large and 2 smaller). Steps were paint, poke in the 1400 mini lights (for the small flag) (3,000 for the larger flag), make a frame, DONE. Total time invested each was about 1 1/2 hours each. All the lights shine the same brightness (brighter that the rope light, and a hole lot lighter). Lesson learned for me. If you can find a quality professional product at a reasonalbe price, buy it. Looks better and cost less. (saved 4 1/2 hours on the large flag alone and the overall cost was about the same not including any labor) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Hoffman Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 I also bought the coro light flag and arches and I am very pleased with their product. Thanks for your time and advice.Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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