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Downshear helps. Premask helps. I think (but I am not a regular sign guy) that leaving the vinyl for a day probably helps too. Sharp corners are an issue but push through should have those rounded off some. Usually I just cut with regular bit (upshear 63-725 onsrud) but always with premask on so...

Light industrial is the best place, but you'd want something with a bit more exposure (maybe?) if doing retail, so units fronting the street etc. But retail zoning might allow ancillary work to be done also.....usually costs more per sqft though.

So, I walked away for this potential business purchase today. (not a holiday up here in Canada) I was told everything would have been ready to sign "soon" but I had set my drop-dead date of returning my deposit as tomorrow noon. They had "a few days" (my words in an email) to get their sh#t...

Having cut steel before (by accident, customer said it was aluminum laminated to wood), a carbide bit *will* cut it, but it will get shorter every time! I would guess that way lower feedrate/chipload would be helpful in general but partly what I'm saying is the bit didn't fail spectacularly so...

Why don't you just tap the alupanel? (heck a machine screw will tap itself) It won't be super strong, but it won't have to be....and you'll need screws that are the right length (ie very short but probably out there). I agree that d/s vhb tape is probably the easier choice.

I'll just add to this that I haven't found Chinese suppliers to bait and switch (but vinyl is certainly easier to do so than the acrylic sheet I bring in), but do not ever, under any circumstances, ask them to lower their price. They don't have tiers or profit margins like here and 1 cent less...

I have a customer that does this, event floors and such. Truely quality isn't the issue from a traditional sign shop perspective (which is how long it lasts / adheres). These guys want cheap, low adhesive (because peeling the stuff off is more work than putting it down), and if the printing...

Landlord is just an unprofessional idiot. I'm almost ready to sign, no one can find the actual lease to review. Agent draws up an assignment that only vaguely references a lease. I sign that. Then they find the lease hours later......and want $500 to assign the lease (agent says seller would...

Yep, I've been doing just that. I can't tell if landlord is trying to use the booth as leverage, saw my covid financials (Plexiglas screens=high numbers for one year) and got greedy, or just throwing a number out there without much thought. As far as I know the landlord has a number of other...

Well, after mulling over the problem for too long. I've decided on plan B. Pay the sellers enough to cover the rent so as to keep the deal alive but gain full access to the shop to learn the equipment better (learn the ins and outs of the axyz routers and the Mathews paint system in particular)...

This thing is crazy. Waiting on the landlord to agree to me taking over the lease.....now they want 33% increase and not month to month as current. 33% is above market and our market is crazy high as is. I can handle (mentally) half the increase if we stay month to month as it's a) the actual...

Just as a follow up to this re: accuraccy. I had a job come in this week that was recreating shelves from a limo's bar. Since we have 12x12" tiles, I used those as my reference and just used my phone camera (I did have some barrel distortion but I deemed it not enough to look up how to...

I think it's a cross draft style booth, car sized, fairly simple I guess but licenced, and has fire suppression equipment. Air compressor is (I think) a screw driven unit with built in air dryer ....a heck of a better unit that my fab shop has. There is a reason I'm practicing painting with a...

Well, they have the paint booth set up, that's #1 reason I'm buying them and not just growing organically into doing painting. If you didn't read earlier, we already do letter work and so I'm not new to business nor new to this business. And now that I've tried painting I'm not finding in as...

Reviving this thread of mine as the purchase is going to happen.... eventually. The whole process has been slower than paint drying on a foggy day. The price is asset value only as the one and only employee has left and isn't coming back. That may be ok given the sales volume and her apparent...