So I picked up our corner flags the other day to take to try outs. In the midst of all of this, my car broke down. The flags ended up sitting in the back of my car the entire day (it was about 80-90 degrees outside) and they sort of melted and are all warped. I've tried running the hair dryer over them but it's just not enough heat to soften them so I can straighten them. I've got probably 2 dozen of them sitting in my dining room and need to figure out how to get them back to straight as quickly as possible. Anyone have any thoughts?
I don't know anything about such things, but my only thought would be, could you put them back in the car? And check on them and when they start to get soft again take them out and see if you can bend them back? It's the only thing I can think of.
I had the same thing happen to my set of portable flags. I get ribbed about them regularly, but the alternative is no flags... LOTG do not specify that they must be non-warped, nor the thickness, nor color of the flags.
That's what I've been trying to do but I swear that Monday was the only really hot day this week. It finally got hot again yesterday so I got a few of them to get soft enough to reshape. I'll slowly work on it over the next few days so I can keep an eye on it. And yeah, a few would make awesome ski poles right now. If I had the motivation to post pics I would. We could all use the laughs.
No, I meant just the flags. They've got to be attached/affixed to the poles somehow. There's got to be someway to disconnect the flags, even if it means you have to use duct tape to reattach. But you need the heat of a clothes dryer to get the wrinkles out of plastic or perhaps even nylon.
Val1, I'm pretty sure Ihateusernames is talking about the poles the flags attach to, not the flags proper. I have several plastic coaching poles that have an unwanted bend due to being in a hot car. A sudden thought... you can probably rent (or buy, they're not expensive) an industrial heat gun. Hair dryers only go up to 140F, which is hot enough if you can bake the whole thing up to that temp (like in your car). But I'd bet a 1000F heat gun could soften the plastic so you could unbend it.