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Manufacturers alter the cost of foam PVC sheet by simply increasing or decreasing the amount of air they force into the mixed chemicals. The cheaper the sheet the greater the air content. Increased air content creates a much rougher cell structure which gives nasty rough cut edges. More air...

Book an appointment with the OWNER of the manufacturing facility. Explain that you doing the decals is a deal breaker... either provide usage of the graphics bay or keep 10 new trailers, your customer will make alternative arrangements with a rival manufacturer. Someone, somewhere needs to...

When was the last time you bought new collets? These items are consumables which will wear out over time. If your collet is dropping router bits then it's a sure sign that it's badly worn and no longer grips tightly around the bit... either that or you are using a fractionally over size collet...

Why do lots of people flood into the sign industry? It's a barrier less industry with no requirements in terms of qualification or competence. It's also cheap to get started, a basic set of equipment costs almost nothing. Why do lots of people struggle to earn a living in the sign industry...

As a committed Corel user since Version 3 I have to say I just don't understand what your point is? Where exactly does Corel automatically produce overlapping, intersecting lines which need to be altered? The last version of Cadlink I owned was way back when it was a DoS based program. To...

The t'interweb groans under the weight of cracked and hacked versions of Cadlink. If dongle protection is supposed to protect Cadlink's revenue stream then clearly it ain't working. Cadlink is a god awful pile of cack... I've only ever owned one version of Cadlink and that was the first DoS...

I'd quote if for flat cut letter shapes manufactured from acrylic or ploymetal, hell for indoor use you could use coloured Sintra. Painting serves no practical purpose as far as I can see... it's a lot of pi$$ing about on site and from the sounds of it a load of aggro... cut the shapes from...

As mentioned the correct distance from tube to acrylic sign face is 150mm (6"). This is the absolute minimum... any closer and you'll see nasty light "stripes". If you run a tube in the top of your cabinet the one underneath it should be 450mm from the centre of the top tube... and so on...

This kind of crackpot pricing method wants to make me weep. A piece of vinyl to cut your stickers may well cost £8 or £9 but that isn't the only cost... you've got to build in an allowance for ALL your overhead costs FFS. The reason why so many people fail in this business is because they...

Laser cut them.... Sheet styrene in 1.5, 2 & 3mm thicknesses can be cut a treat using laser machines... we do it all the time. It doesn't matter what colour you go for... styrene laser cuts without charred edges and the finished parts are super smooth and very nice. Die cutting is a pain in...

Who are you exactly? An experienced and successful sign maker who actually knows what the f*ck they are talking about or just another dumbass who thinks they're going to set the world a light with their cheap cutter and cut throat prices. In 1988 when I first started in this business you could...

Mate, concentrate on your existing business, see if you can at least make a success of something you understand. If you can't give up and go find a job somewhere. Don't come round to our industry and drop your lowball turd on our carpet.

North America is too far from dear old blighty but my choices would be 1) The South of France 2) Northern Italy 3) The Catalan area of Spain. Nice weather, beautiful scenery and only a short plane ride back to Britain.

This seams odd... if all those people who lazily smear Europe as "socialist" were right then you'd assume there would be cues of people trying to leave the continent.... Europeans have to pay a lot of taxes because the society we want costs a lot of money... we don't want healthcare left to...

I still bury oil in my backyard after doing oil changes, after all, it came out of the ground originally didn't it?? Even so, that is an improvement over pouring it down the storm drain like we used to do back when I was a kid. Oh my god, say that again slowly? If your "logic" made any sense...

Next time click vertical when you want vertical flutes on your signs... don't try and do 4Over's job for them... tell them what flute direction you want, give them the artwork as it should be read (landscape" and let them figure out material usage.

Send the job to a waterjet shop and get superior results in a fraction of the time.... CNC routers are great for lots of things.... cutting metal isn't one of them. The 6mm 8x4ft sheet is a perfect example. On a router these letters take 7 HOURS to cut and require a lot of fiddling about using...

Awnings are simple structures..... you build and aluminium frame and then staple a fabric covering onto it.... it's not rocket science. This awning company is deliberately trying to add on layers of complexity which just aren't there..... the original awning blew off the building because it...

Mental Illness.

Exactly. We've used Hexis for 15+ years.... I have absolutely no idea how they handle material failure because they've been sneaky and never supplied sub standard material.. the rotters :) Back in the day we used to get through miles of vinyl every month..... with hundreds of thousands of...