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I've seen articles about them but have never known a shop that actually uses one.

Used to paint backlit faces but used specific paint for polycarb. From what I understood the paint was designed to "flex" since the face moves and shrinks/expands. You need to be sure the paint is good for use on plastics. But why not just use black vinyl and seam it? Seam won't be visible from...

I don't weld (wish I'd learned) but have a sub contract welder I use with a portable rig. After 35 years in the business you probably already knew that.

I agree, welding a tab would be best, both structurally and visually

I hate hearing about stuff like this, especially when it hasn't happened to me (yet). The first suggestion is to double check all the connections, internal and external.

Hope that it's a quality unit then Youtube the brand for pointers

What does the client spec? Around here the towns all have specs. For double sided ones we use 18oz blockout, sewn hems with webbing & re-enforced cornerd and yes they all wanted the dreaded wind slits. Mesh banners are OK for a single side banner for double side I think the ghost looks bad.

Back when we would use Glass Wax.

I'm pretty good at reproducing files, but most of the time it's way more effcient to use the Vector Doc, Eric does great work

you might try asking here http://www.letterville.com/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi I had a guy call a couple years ago, he had been calling every sign shop looking for someone to gold leaf, probably called 50 before he got to me, when I said Yes, I did hand gilding he was like "No sh*t?! :roflmao...

I have never heard of having a sub, like an installer sign a non-compete. Employees yes, but not in this business. From what I have read they are very hard to enforce unless you have the money for a lawyer. The only instances I know of that it has been used is when selling a business.

I have used Hall, good company, but sometimes the lead time can be a little long

Gerber Edge is still a great machine for this stuff

Agree, it was probably done with an Edge with a primer coat first Though not sure why..

When wraps first appeared I had a lot of commercial customers that lost interest when I told them the price plus the (lack of) longevity. A guy that was used to vinyl lettering lasting the life of his truck wasn't interested in spending way more for something that may have to be replaced in a...

Not that I know of. For me it's more of an aesthetic combined with the practical, enough to do the job and keeping holes away from the edge.

personally I wouldn't want to deal with the hassle of small sales like that, but I can see where it could work. There's often room to run extra small decals on many jobs. If you have the design they could be printed for the cost of the ink alone. I'll sometimes run small versions of the clients...

I use Gerber Omega, 5.0 I think. I learned computer sign making with Gerber and have stuck with it. Some of the features on Gerber are more sign orientated. I also have Corel for printing. The one issue you may have is the ability to use the old version on a new computer. You can get upgrades...

So most cast vinyl is 7- 8 years, correct? And if you use the exact same quality to laminate it how would that make it last longer? The one case I would see is to add some scratch protection.

Why is that just about every piece of hardware you buy, even supposedly professional grade, comes with crap fasteners