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If you don't need to wear steel-toe boots or shoes then any foot wear with soft rubber or crepe sole will do just fine. I don't know if you can find them anymore but shoes that had a sole that looked like they were a series of notches were the best I ever wore - worked at a GM parts plant and...

All my burners (freebies) will grab any file, regardless of format, from any accessible place including my San Disk and Kingston sticks and burn them to a CD or DVD. USB ports below 3.0 are slow but since the burning process is slow that isn't really an issue. You might have to set the DVD...

GV is NASTY stuff. It eats capillary film and softens squeegees. LT works. May wish to add a bit of recommended screen wash to it. We make a cocktail out of various chemicals for each line of ink we use using the MSDS sheets supplied by NazDar as a base point for making a solvent cleaner...

Too late now but look into doggy insurance. My SIL has it for her two mutts and she is ahead of the curve being tha she has paid less in premimums than what the health care costs were. Recently lost a good dog due to surgery costs I could not afford. I did the math. Insurance would have...

Guess what, John L.... Schools in many areas of the country are technically their own political subdivision. For instance, in Florida, the school system is county-wide and school board members are elected like county commissioners, state house and state senate members, etc. What does that...

Don't ask me brand names or where to get it but I do recall reading somewhere (sign mag or on-line) that there was a paint that was ferrous/mag that could be applied to any surface to allow adhesion for magnetic-changeable copy.

Some polycarb supply folks advertise in sign mags. They show bricks and baseballs being hurled and bouncing off. We have tried that product once (in a bad area of town) and it worked as advertised. If you use that product, take a lesson from the DOT plus go one step further. The more...

That "coke" thing is now an urban myth. Up to somewhere in the early 70's Coca-Cola™ would actually remove rust from chrome bumpers, etc (with a bit of scrubbing). Not anymore. All the formulas for all their soft drinks have gone through multiple revisions. If cake Bon Ami doesn't do the...

While on the subject I really have to ask...do your permit folks demand the sign copy? If so, is B& W acceptable or does it have to be in color? I ask because a few years ago I tried to walk a permit through a particular city and the gal at the desk asked for copy...and it and to be in color...

http://www.snapframes.com/ They have it all. But always shop around. You don't really need a tension frame like you would on the side of a semi unless you wish to stay with providing banner material. That is expensive and a bit of overkill, IMHO. Get rich and famous.

Hey, Bigdawg what county in sunny Florida are you in? Permits for a banner??? WOW!!!

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Landmarks for some pointers. Seems like the http://egov.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/ will lead you to http://egov.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Ordinance.html which may be of help.

Is the current fabric stapled? I replaced my shop awning a while back and I just reused the self-tapping SCREWS that were there.

I had that issue some time back and it was a flaky power supply. Could be "dirty" power as well. All my computers as well as plotters, etc. use a suitable UPS for line conditioning. Cheap investment as I live in the lightening capital of the world.

We haven't done textiles in quite a while but Pinellas County had at least 3 distributors when we did. GoodBuy on the south side of St. Pete. I think they are now called Alpha shirts ST. PETERSBURG (ALPHA EXPRESS) 2230-B 31st Street South Dowling Graphics (mid county) advertises that...

Ifran is good as is ST Thumbnail Explorer and all those programs mentioned in the previous thread but none will work worth a damn if there isn't a Tiff header in the EPS.

It gets even more complicated when you tell them to "covert to curves" or "embed" the font. I never mention EPS as you never know what version you will get nor what is in it. It is bad enough that an AI or CDR will contain both vector and raster at times even if it is made to size.

Pulling permits can be the ultimate bitch even when the political subdivision is staffed with nice folks. It is getting so bad that companies who do nothing but pull permits are springing up everywhere. They will take your design, have it approved by the proper engineer and walk it through the...

It's easy. Tell your customer open any raster/bitmap image s/he has (give the extension names) and then press the "+" button. Keep pressing. Eventually they will only see rectangles of ugly color. Tell them that is what they will get on their sign when the image is blown up. To explain...

Most of us don't have to cut aluminum or other metals very often as we usually get it cut to size but there will be times it is better to buy a full sheet or you need a special shape. The following works for both a circle saw and a jigsaw. Cutting a shape with a hand-held jigsaw - place a...