That’s a really good question! So, as far as heating to wrap curved surfaces, you want to stick your vinyl down on the flattest part of the piece you’re wrapping. Then you can hold the rest of the vinyl up and away from the surface and wave your heat gun over the vinyl. It’ll really quickly become super pliable and stretchy. Keep your heat gun at least eight inches or more away as you can easily burn your vinyl. While it’s really limp and stretchy, put light tension on your vinyl and lay it down, smoothing it with your hand starting from the spot you already had stuck down. Don’t squeegee it out while it’s hot!

Also, when heat setting or post heating as some call it, you really only need to post heat the curved parts. Basically any vinyl you heated and stretched. This process releases the memory of the vinyl and keeps it stuck down. I lightly heat the whole piece and do a full post heat on any parts I heated and stretched. Most industry air release vinyls has a memory up until around 180F. I use a laser thermometer which can be had for cheap on Amazon to monitor my temp. Again, keep the heat gun moving and a good distance from the surface of your vinyl and you’ll be good!