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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...

I agree. The largest sign company in my area is the most expensive, but they always make a quality product and deliver on schedule. Good clients put quality and service over price.

Are you welding or glueing the letters together? We weld them then sand the seams and caulk the inside of the seam to prevent light leaks. No filler needed. Just installed this set yesterday.

If the colors you want are available I would do option B. I only do printed if it's a complicated design or has colors I can't get. Vinyl seems to outlast any print I've tried.

You could try projecting the image into the mirror and hand painting it with one shot. Personally I would turn this job down unless the project was over $5k.

So I got a call out of the blue from a local restaurant chain wanting me to bid on an interior sign package. I responded saying I was interested and gave them my email address to send me the information for the project. What was sent was a 15 page PDF with the info and then at the end was the...

I would mount it with solar panel brackets. They are designed to be water tight. Put in two rows and build a frame between them to mount the letters to at the correct angle.

I have yet to see a router that perfectly cuts small parts without them moving right at the end of the cut. If I needed to do the job you're doing I'd sub the cutting to a shop with a co2 laser.

Code only applies to high voltage electrical. Low voltage doesn't really have any restrictions. For high voltage we use watertight flexible conduit to get power to the sign. Low voltage applications we use paiges wire.

Unistrut or aluminum channel frame attached to the wall with 1-1/2 aluminum angle iron retainers.

If I were to be a one man show, it would be me and a boom truck. You can command a much higher hourly rate with a truck. When we rented lifts the rental was figured into the price. Now we still charge for the equipment but own it so we make more money.

4x8 solo is easy. Sometimes you can just remove one side retainer and side the old face out and slide the new one in. If it won't slide take the top retainer off. Never remove the bottom retainer. A tow behind articulating lift can usually be rented for around $300. We used to rent them all the...

Sadly net 30 is something we just have to deal with regularly on the back end. We always require a 50% deposit even on small jobs to soften the burden of waiting for the final payment. Oddly enough the most common clients to have net 30 are national sign companies. You'd think they would...

SolidWorks may be able to do this. Its a bit pricey but it can make high quality renderings and animations.

I've done wood tracks before for a menu board. It was just a strip of 1/4 ply with another strip wider than it glued and brad nailed to it. You could do this with metal pretty easily using a router or laser, or buying small bars of different widths and screw through them into the wood.

You can use 3M VHB tape and some dabs of silicone. The silicone might leave some residue, but I can't think of anything else that will adhere well and can be removed cleanly. I would feel safer with a minimum of one tapcon. A few small screw holes in concrete can be easily filled and may do...

How thick? 1. Aluminum with studs welded on the back. 2. Acrylic with studs glued or tapped. 3 ACM with countersunk tapcons. There are many good ways to skin this cat.

The Lightweld is intended to be in its own room with an interlock on the door. We currently have it bypassed. I might see if I can find a better wire feeder for it. Aluminum wire really needs a spool gun or a push pull setup to not birdnest. I might be able to do some autogenous (no filler)...

The router is terrible (Laguna entry level). The parts come out fine for router standards, but the laser parts come out with perfect glass finish edges. The best part is the acrylic doesn't move. I just set it on laser bed and even tiny parts stay put.