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  1. Contour Cut Sign to be Hung Outside on Facade of Building

    I can't see the picture either. Never had an ACM install failure. Maybe it's just me, but I've never had a mechanical install failure period. Did have a tornado suck some Gemini formed letters off the wall years ago, but I didn't put them up, I just replaced them.
  2. Harley Davidson replacement graphic

    In the mid 2000's I work at an outdoor advertising agency / sign shop and our part time college office girl did he senior thesis on corporate marketing tactics. Even then HD was losing money building and selling motorcycles. Then as now they profited handsomely by renting out their mark to...
  3. How to Approach Window Film Installation

    My ladders all have four feet. Now let me do the math.......move four rocks.
  4. New Employee Training

    Wow. Great question. In a large shop training can be 'manualized' because it is often quite specific. Being a small shop the best I could do was outline all the skills involved and then teach them as they came up. Years ago I had a good employee who watched and listened (listened being...
  5. Good place to order printed flex faces?

    Circle Graphics, the largest vinyl flex printer in the US and Lamar Advertising's go to printer, is located in Longmont, CO.
  6. Panformed Sign Faces: Survey Measurements

    As signbrad said, back in the day when fluorescent lamps were the standard, you needed 6" between a lamp and the face to have good light dispersion. A 7"cabinet with 3" draft on pan faces gives you 13" wide. 13" minus half the lamp diameter of a T12 lamp (.625) and presto, you just over 6". With...
  7. Installing acrylic letters

    Design your stud pattern so that studs go in mortar joints and not the bricks. Mortar joint holes can be easily repaired and there is very minimal structural affect.
  8. Panformed Sign Faces: Survey Measurements

    Of all the measurement you can log, CUT SIZE is CRITICAL.
  9. Need Help Letter Board Assembly

    Drill holes thru your ACM but not not the track. This will allow adhesive (Lexel or equivalent) to push thru the ACM and the "mushroom" created will serve as a throw fastener.
  10. How Should I Apply?

    I would not put 6'x4' styrene on the exterior of glass, period. Not if, but when it fails, he will blame you.
  11. sign cover

    If it's a sign such as attached pics you can easily make your own. Village Pharm, which was very temporary, is just grommets every 6" and a couple dozen feet of paracord. PRC, which was an economy way to o semi permanent, had pole pockets around perimeter of banners. I placed a patch of gorilla...
  12. I read all these ways 'to' and 'not to' do things in signland......................................................

    I don't think are industry standard practices, but the driver of the John Deere is a licensed pilot.
  13. How many one man shops are there? How many things do you do?

    One Man shops don't do quotes. One Man shops live by referral. I turn down more than I do.
  14. Car toppers?

    As noted ikarasu noted use coraplast fastened with DS tape and get your magnets at Harbor Freight.
  15. Best way to rename this sign...for the third time in 2-3 years

    Find a buddy with a bull pusher on the front of his truck and drive thru it, over it and go on. Their food probably sucks anyway.
  16. Rant Customer Rant

    Frick'um if they can't take a joke. You are the PROFESSIONAL. You set the parameters Tell'm to jump off.
  17. Logo Design

    i just threw up
  18. Additional U-channel Support

    Truck are too damn big if you can't see a 3' bollard and he can't reach my toolbox. A client had a very similar problem a few years ago and I simple installed the 'Parking Only' signs on the white line extended instead of the middle of the parking spot. Sometimes the non-invited still park...
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