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We usually would too if that's all it was, but we were involved in new stores, updates, re-brands, and removals for them for a while. They paid a little slow, the usual corporate BS, but they paid. Then while doing signage for a new Fuzzy's Taco for them, they started falling behind with all the...

the kind of posts I hate making. Just a heads up to everyone, we've been doing work for the Starboard Group based in Florida off and on, and towards the end of last year we started having issues getting paid. They filed bankruptcy in November, owing us money. Today they contacted us to do a...

Just go with 3M 1080 or 2080 color change film, pick a stock color and go. It's all air release, comply, yada, yada, won't be much different than printed 180, just a bit thinner depending on what lam you used on the 180. No lam required, rolls are 60" wide, full roll is 25 yards, and you can buy...

I don't know what the solution is, but something has to change. When we have no people left with basic skills anymore, where are we going? Pretty bad when worn out, burned out, retired old reprobates like me have to go back to work to make up for no qualified people. Me too Johnny... :thumb:

Too many parents don't take the time or effort for much today. I pulled the last two out of high school and did the home schooling and worked with them on finding careers. One is in construction, and should have his own shingle out within the next year, the other does metal fabrication, both...

The way they run schools is one of the biggest problems today. It's a pet peeve of mine. Back when I went to school, in jr high alone we had wood shop, metal shop, and basic mechanics. I did drawings in 7th grade that went to national competitions, I had an advantage growing up in a body shop...

Thanks, I've done my share of production flatbed printing in the past on a lot of substrates, but not so much on powder coated. Just gettin' my ducks inn a row. Planning on using the Mimaki primer, but this is kind of what I was looking for, does it work over powder, or suggestions on good...

For Mimaki flatbed users, what sort of success do you have with direct printing on powdercoated metal? Good? Bad? Any particular inkset better for it than others? We currently supply decals for a customer to apply to their products, but they're working on something that would increase quantities...

The weight of the acrylic is probably too much for the two sided tape to not pull the vinyl loose. Can you do standoffs to mount them instead?

No, but we are their dealerships, they manufacture, we consign and sell their brands just like the Ford lot down the street does. We just don't have to stick to just one "brand on the lot".

And the more we farm out everything to the rest of the world to build for us, the more tools we'll need to fix em'. Now you gotta figure out if something is SAE, metric, imperial, if it's phillips or pozidrive.... Not to mention all the different security fasteners so you can't open what you...

Some you just have to tell the story to... Your car wasn't made at the dealership you bought it from. It was made by a manufacturer, with parts that came from vendors. Sign shops are the same, we partner with manufacturers and vendors who provide unique to the industry components and parts that...

They're PosiDrive. There's a difference between them and phillips, even though they look similar. The blade angles are different, they have wider, more squared off blades and shorter tips. Some big box stores stock them, some don't. Best bet is an actual hardware store, or auto parts stores that...

Use a fine blade, no less than 60 tooth carbide tip, works good for other stuff too, we usually use 80 tooth carbide tip.

2023 was an incredibly great, possibly a record year. January isn't over yet, and we already have jobs stacked up months out. 2024 should be as good, or better if it keeps up at this pace. :toasting:

You can do it manually like Boudica does. We just use a panel saw, but you can use a skill saw (with correct blade), jig saw for shapes. Stomp shear works good, router, cnc if you have one... any will work Just use a sanding block, file, or de-bur tool to clean any rough or sharp edges. Shops...

Right on the money. This is the biggest thing.... Our vendors aren't grocery stores with fixed prices, you can negotiate on materials, especially the ones you use most often, and the price gets lower if they know they can count on you for a certain volume.

Never rely on just one vendor. Set up accounts with several. We have a couple of main vendors that we use for most orders, one for stuff like vinyls, lamps, sign parts, sheet stock, etc, we're on their delivery route, they deliver every Tuesday, the other is a about 200 miles from us, so we get...

Figured the blue would be way more intense, colored glass isn't made to make the world look blue like tints are. At least they picked it, and it's at ground level where its not super obvious.

Went through this before I retired. We ordered 10+ pallets of sintra at a clip, and had so many problems with marks, scuffs, and other contamination issues. We went through countless suppliers, and finally found one that supplied us with stuff so good that we could just unseal a pallet and it...