are stuck onto

English translation: glued onto

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English term or phrase:stuck onto
Selected answer:glued onto
Entered by: Andrew Vdovin

11:57 Aug 30, 2007
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial
English term or phrase: are stuck onto
Next we went over to an enclosed office where all the custom head and shell graphics are done. The office has very large flat bed printers for printing the graphics onto drum shell wrap or laminate ***which are stuck onto existing heads***. Here Remo does Custom graphics on drumheads, on the drum shell, the covering or the laminate. It’s all done in house and they can take the graphics and laminate them.

Dear English speakers!
The text is about drumhead manufacturing.
Would someone please explain to me what this phrase might mean.
What ARE stuck onto existing heads? What does "stuck onto" mean, anyway?
I'll appreciate any suggestions.
Andrew Vdovin
Local time: 03:03
glued onto
Explanation:
the graphics are printed onto "drum shell wrap" or onto laminate.
The drum shell wrap or laminate is then stuck/glued onto existing drumheads.
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Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 21:03
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help Mark! Thanks everybody!!!
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +6glued onto
Mark Nathan
4 +1the drum shell wrap or laminate....
Jack Doughty
4It's basically transfer printing
kmtext


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
glued onto


Explanation:
the graphics are printed onto "drum shell wrap" or onto laminate.
The drum shell wrap or laminate is then stuck/glued onto existing drumheads.

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 21:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help Mark! Thanks everybody!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Monika Silea
3 mins

agree  P Waters
3 mins

agree  Ken Cox: colloquial English
17 mins

agree  Carol Gullidge: or fixed onto
29 mins

agree  Elena Aleksandrova
5 hrs

agree  Alfa Trans (X)
15 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the drum shell wrap or laminate....


Explanation:
...IS stuck onto...
If the subject has to be plural, it would have to be "graphics", but that doesn't make so much sense to me.
The drum shell wrap or laminate, with the graphics on it, is made to adhere to the drum heads. The wrap or laminate is presumably a thin plastic foil.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ken Cox: maybe the speaker/author was thinking 'graphics are' and interpolated (or edited in) 'wrap or laminate'
18 mins
  -> Thank you. Yes, probably that's it.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
It's basically transfer printing


Explanation:
Either the graphics are printed onto an adhesive film or are laminated and then glued onto the drums.
Stuck onto just means attached. It can be by glueing, pinning, stapling etc.

kmtext
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GaelicGaelic
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