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  1. AZ How do I go about getting jobs to bid?

    Shake hands and kiss babies.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. Panformed Sign Faces: Survey Measurements

    Of all the measurement you can log, CUT SIZE is CRITICAL.

  7. 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.
  8.

    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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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.

  11. 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.
  12.

    Car toppers?

    As noted ikarasu noted use coraplast fastened with DS tape and get your magnets at Harbor Freight.

  13. What are some ways to show gratitude to past clients?

    And a boat ride!
  14.

    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.

  15. 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.
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