Long-overdue rant: Stickers vs. Decals

[RC10resto]

Being into models and RC I have had to make the distinction many times

My problem is when I buy decals from Canada and they send me "deck-als" when I ordered "dee-cals"

[MelvinsArmy]

No water or heat needed for a vinyl decal.

I appreciate your grumpy old man rant though. I've thought the same thing for years.

[Incredible_Serious]

Two ways of looking at this, in my opinion....

1. Down here in Oz, people called them stickers when I was growing up. They only became decals when discussing with people from overseas (the US and UK mainly). Thus I always thought of them as stickers, but have learned to write decals for the benefit of those not lucky enough to live here.

or...

2. As with most rants I see on the Internet these days, I really couldn't give a fig either way, and so will just laugh from afar at the insecurity of the original poster.


Alex

[Lowgear]

How about wheels and rims? To me its always been rim, and combining a rim with a tire creates a wheel. It all really depends on where you live I guess. Just like calling it soda or pop.

Also saying a decal and a sticker are two different things can go either way. Both do the same job, they just have different forms of application.

[Charlie don't surf]

My problem is when I buy decals from Canada and they send me "deck-als" when I ordered "dee-cals"

Classic!

[MelvinsArmy]

A rim is the outside part of a wheel, just like it's the outside part of a glass. Rims are not wheels. A tire has nothing to do with a wheel, other than it's fitted to one. That's my take.

[jwscab]

Yes, a wheel is a wheel, not a RIM. The tire goes on the wheel, unless it's a tireless wheel, in which case........it's still a wheel. I can't stand when people talk rims....ugh. the rim is what you call the edge where the tire bead sits, and when you are talking about black wheels with a chrome or silver outline, it's not a LIP, it's the RIM, or BEAD....

the decal/sticker thing is painfully obvious if you ever built models, so I've never given it much thought.

and WHY is it that the glue they use on stickers you want to stay sucks, but the glue on the stickers that you want to remove holds on like hair on a gorilla?

[Orange]

I thought stickers were Chinese food? Weird!

[Halgar]

Time for another of my grumpy-ol'-man rants.

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to know the difference between "decals" and "stickers", and thought it was high time that we get this straight.

STICKERS are what we mostly use on our RC car Lexan bodies. They're sticky.

DECALS are applied using heat or water transfer, such as what we used to put on our plastic models.

There, was that so hard?

When I was getting pricing for a run of stickers, the shop called them die-cut and decal. Die-cut were cut vinyl lettering, the decal was a printed logo on clear vinyl which was peel and stick.

And not to get technical, but when you go to the store for decal sheets, you're buying water-slide paper, decals don't exist until they've been printed onto the paper ...

[hawgfanman]

How about wheels and rims? To me its always been rim, and combining a rim with a tire creates a wheel. It all really depends on where you live I guess. Just like calling it soda or pop.

Also saying a decal and a sticker are two different things can go either way. Both do the same job, they just have different forms of application.

In the south, we don't have soda or pop, we have coke. You go to a restaraunt and order a coke and they ask you what kind.

[Halgar]

In the south, we don't have soda or pop, we have coke. You go to a restaraunt and order a coke and they ask you what kind.

That makes sense, do you want a new Coke, Classic Coke, regular, diet, caffeine free ...

Reminds me of the original Back To The Future movie when Marty was trying to order something to drink.
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[hawgfanman]

In the south, we don't have soda or pop, we have coke. You go to a restaraunt and order a coke and they ask you what kind.

That makes sense, do you want a new Coke, Classic Coke, regular, diet, caffeine free ...

Reminds me of the original Back To The Future movie when Marty was trying to order something to drink.
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Yea, but when they ask they might say we have dr pepper, mountain dew, pepsi and coke!

[shodog]

That's it no stickers or decals or rides tor you. Im the stocker mazi and i approved this message.. I nominate Coel to email every dum dum ebay seller who uses the wrong word for their stickers

[klavy69]

I nominate Coel to email every dum dum ebay seller who uses the wrong word for their stickers

I'll second that!

[Halgar]

Yea, but when they ask they might say we have dr pepper, mountain dew, pepsi

But if you order any of those, you're not ordering a Coke, you're ordering a sody-pop!