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We built a small ventilated shed that's attached to the rear wall of our shop that houses our shop air compressor, dust collector and vacuum pump for our router. Not sure if that's a possibility for you. In the future I plan on building walls for the router to have it's own space.

I would have built the whole thing out of Aluminum or aluminium as you would say over there. They make all kinds of different extrusions that are similar to the shapes you are trying to achieve. If you don't have the capability to fabricate then find someone that does and sub it out. I don't...

Not sure you guys read the original post, but the conduit is existing and feeds EV charging stations and therefore is most likely well supported. If it's Ridgid conduit and not EMT it should be fine.

It's hard to say what you should do because every sign business is a little different. A simple Google sheet that multiple users have access to is a good place to start for free. That and a file server so all job files are organized and accessible on all your machines can do wonders. From your...

I would just glue acrylic letters to a sheet of sign grade acrylic. Polycarbonate doesn't glue well.

Faces for signs on acrylic, polycarbonate and acm would be my go to's. A flatbed printer is on my wish list.

I considered the 3D printed letter thing. It's just too slow, and the size limitations are an issue. I could cut several sheets of numbers before one number is done printing. For the most part material costs are minuscule compared to labor.

Sand and repaint like Gino said. I would have tried to sell them a full refurb. Remove the cabinet, repaint the box and retainers. Install new led modules (especially if it has florescents).

If you could fill in the space between the faces with a cheap substrate such as wood or foam you could laminate the whole thing together and use no fasters. You would essentially be creating your own composite panel sandwiched around the frame. This would also stiffen your faces so they won't...

I've stopped cutting materials for other shops. It's not worth the hassle. It seems I always have to do a bunch of clean up, or redraw their files. Then they want to provide their own materials. For it to be worth my time it would need to be $400-$500 minimum.

I think it's refered to as down under rather than down there.

In my state our license allows us to make connections that are within 6 feet of the sign. Further than that we have the customer hire an electrician. Your state licensing code should tell you what you're allowed to do.

For $10 a day we put one up. Got three decent jobs from it on the first day. It more than pays for itself. I'm sure every market is a little different so your mileage may vary.

Just had this conversation this morning with my designer about an awful print using customer supplied artwork. Sometimes the customer likes ugly things.

Polycarbonate won't glue well to trim cap. Trim cap is made using acrylic so it can be glued to acrylic faces using acrylic glue. For extra strength you can order sign grade acrylic such as optix which glues well and is stronger than plain acrylic. The acrylic glue is available in different...