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5'x6' for 3/16 acrylic should be fine so long there's 6 standoffs.

I cut composite at 16500-18500 rpm between 140-190 IPM with a 1/8 o-fluted upcutter. Regardless of the brand it always works fine, depends on how big the part is but your parts are large. I have pushed the bit to 250 ipm as well but it's not too happy about it. If your cuts aren't going through...

Rustoleum spray cans have worked pretty well. They have these new 2x cans that really put down the paint which is sometimes detrimental for smaller lettering. We have never had issues with the paint coming off letters and we never primed/sanded them. Make sure you let them dry and don't spray...

I think the downcut might not work that good for Acrylic as you said yourself. We use downcuts for sintra/pvc as well. Works really well.

A pressure foot helps a lot to keep the parts down and lifting. Especially for sign blanks. We ran at 175 ipm 19500 rpm 3/8 cutter 1 pass into 0.80 no lifting using a mister ofcourse. Pressure foot also makes you hate life if it decides to snag on a part. The one thing that has helped me a lot...

Probably some type of thermoformable plastic that's translucent. ABS would be a prime suspect. Maybe styrene but it's usually quite opaque. Perhaps making a fabric face instead of a plastic one might solve your weight issue.

Having 1 employee per 2 owners(you and your dad) is pretty funny. That amount of business should be attainable by a 1 man shop by yourself if you were any good at this. If you really truly like this industry maybe take your sweaty palms to a real shop and learn the trade from there. Since your...

Your box in a box idea is good and it seems basic enough to bang out in an afternoon. The style of LED bulb I would use for this would be https://www.mcmaster.com/1638N335/ . That should have a 360 degree light and should be easy enough to screw into sockets. Makes electrical easy to pull off...

Best I can do https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/vozzy/beer-time/base/

I have created for you the future of Signs101. Don't ask me as to what type of service they offer. Took a whole 8 minutes to design this complex beast and render it on my computer. Making the interior parts with all the fasteners/welds/extrusions/lights/power supplies etc is what takes forever...

I'm pretty sure we had a box of 24 come in like a few weeks ago. If you can't find the specific brand it's not a big deal. It's just spray contact cement/adhesive. Like Gorilla Glue brand...

Whatever you decide on buying, make sure it has an automatic tool changer with at least 6 tools. That way you can leave the machine unsupervised (don't tell me I told you this) and do other work. What you are cutting is what really matters. If you want to do non-ferrous metals without wearing...

Nice ! I almost choked on my coffee reading that one. What I meant by King Maos Candy Rock Mountain Bits were Chinese cheapo ebay end mills. Like this one...

This is the way. It's 2021 and they will get that image printed/made regardless and it's better if a local shop gets the $ rather than some giant online print store. I have come to understand the general idea of what the customer wants and just make it work. Making too much noise or having...

I can pick up a stack of 5 4x8 sheets of 1/8 coro in 1 hand. I don't personally think that I am the Hulk in real life but maybe I should go tell the news about my incredible feats of strength. You can always hang them off your bucket on a simple hook unless you and your tools are hitting the...

Acetone is a solvent that does dissolve PVC . The weld-on glue for PVC is mostly acetone it's how I know, has the magic smell. I would not recommend cleaning any vinyls or sintra/pvc sheets with it. If you wiped it with the acetone shortly prior to applying the vinyl it might have still been off...

I've made well over a hundred thousand letters by now. Worked as an installer for a couple of years too and always hated messing around with the paper and vinyl patterns. Since I was such a one man shitshow I started making solid patterns. I cut the outline of letter set+ logo from coroplast($8...

Had the misfortune of having to cut 080 aluminium sign blanks of various sizes for a major city. Did around 200 sheets of 5x10 material but the order was around 2000 sheets.and we found it's cheaper to sub it out to company that did CNC punching instead. Your speeds will never beat a CNC punch...

Currently work in a shop running 3 candy rock mountain Chinese routers. You can get away with a cheapo E-bay router and cut your acrylic/polycarb faces and sintra or composite backs all day long without any issues with uplift . So long you get a good vacuum pump which is about $10,000 new. Auto...

Does your T160 have the opos cam?