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Not being rude but WHAT is it with the Silicone? Seems to me that half the signs in America are held together with bathroom sealant.. why? Can't you get proper adhesives and mechanical fixings or what?

Find someone with a CNC router and give them a sheet of Yellow dibond... job done.

Good points.... Here in the UK there is only one way to manufacture highway signage... the way the Ministry of Transport regulations tell you. Font, character size, kerning, colours, production methods, aluminium grades, reverse power coating colour, post specification and BS EN numbers. You...

Absolutely right... I mean how hard is it to Google "impact vehicle outlines"?! If you purchase the highest quality outlines you can cut or print without ever seeing the vehicle; make, year and model number is all you need. There is a world of difference between quality, professional drawn...

I'd say there is every reason NOT to change a thing... if it ain't broke why fix it? We run used Dell dimensions and Optiplex machines on a mixed Xp/ Win98 network and are utterly delighted with the results... everything works, everything connects, everything is available to start work...

Pat; Do you know the Baud rate and data parity settings for your plotters? If you're going to add PCI serial ports you'll need these values so you can set your ports correctly. Before you go to far down the line of software upgrades and fancy USB cables have you considered a more low tech...

Halal= people who like to haggle. In some parts of the world peeps love to haggle the livin $hit out of everything.... shops in these places display hugely inflated prices which the shop keepers then waste half an hour haggling down to the real price. Dealing with people who always haggle...

I would use 4 battens instead of two. Fix two battens on the back of your sign.. fit the other two onto the posts. If you stagger the battens properly you should be able to bolt two battens onto the post and simply lift the sign and drop it onto them. If you're installing this baby on your own...

You manufacture your post mounted sign assemblies very carefully don't you? I'm willing to wager that your production drawings match the finished sign assemblies to a tolerance of around +/- 3mm or better. This would explain your choice of installation method.... your signs match the...

I've read about these new machines with a great deal of interest.....is this the machine which you think finally delivers what a large format digital printer should be? We adopted wide format digital printing in the era of the Encad type machine and the horrible experiences put us off anything...

Buy the Roland.... it's the only machine you've found so far which is actually worth buying. For gawd's sake don't buy a used Copam for $500... it's essentially the same as the other dreadful Chinese built cutters you've linked to. Corel 10 is worth $30 at most. $300 worth of vinyl.... depends...

Could you not insulate the workspace properly? Our previous building was a cr@ppy 1980's construction with very thin roofing, giant steel roller shutters with zero insulation value. Trying to heat the place was like trying to collect water in a sieve... as fast as we burned propane the heat...

Don't forget to let Adam in Shanghai know where he can buy genuine, ranked Roland DX4 heads for $375.... he can't get them for anything less than $600... and that's direct from Roland's primary Chinese agents:ROFLMAO: What EXACTLY are these heads anyway? Guaranteed brand new Roland stock...

Not sure how to do it in Illustrator but in Corel you'd select the Contour tool and simply outline the original vector by half the desired width you want in vinyl. For example; a final 10mm wide vinyl curve would simply require you to select the original line and contour by 5mm... this draws a...

Price.... Charge enough and you can afford the best materials and have time to invest in getting the product perfect and the install spot on. As I discovered earlier in the week this is an alien concept to a lot of people... some cheap pr!ck in your town quotes for a job based on serving up...

If brokers with more professional selling techniques managed to drive up the accepted market rate for a project like this to $325 would you take it? Clearly my earlier post was waayyyy to complex.... hopefully you'll get the gist this time.

. Sign brokers want to pay DIRT cheap prices so they can maximise their profits... shock horror. Buy cheap... sell high.... This is the fundamental principle behind private sector enterprise the world over. The difference between input cost and output price is the main generator of profit. I...

Adtechia EXPECTS most of his new business clients to last 24 months.... this makes sense when you consider that most new businesses fail within the first 3 years.... I assume that Adtech has knocked off 12 months to allow for the parlous state of the US economy. At NO POINT did Adtechia say...

Bob is on the money.... It matters not how expensive your tool nor how shiny your track.... if you do not have a nice sharp, fine set TCT blade fitted to your machine you might as well use a chainsaw. Kickback, splintered edges, excessive tool marks..... these are all clues that you're using...

Price warfare as a means towards gaining a dominant market position is as old as the hills. These below cost price deals are designed to drive you out of business.... they're not supposed to make the cheapass companies profitable. Once you've all been eliminated these morons fully expect to...