Wedge clamp for bleed face

[Scott H]

Anyone ever seen this before? We don't do a lot of flex face installs, so maybe this is more common than we think. Looks like we will have to hang the bottom clips and do all of the tensioning from the top. I guess we can get a 3' extension for our socket and try to reach the bottom ones. Any great ideas?

 

[JBurton]

Cripes that's screwy. Looks like you have fine access from the top, just take a corner loose from the top, then you should be able to peel the face back as you go, getting each bolt loose. Once you have the top and one side free, you can usually just unhook the other side and bottom, but if it's old enough it won't want to let go. Impact and deep well 7/16" are your friends here.
Save the old face, lay it over the new face, and make where it is folder for clip placement on the new face!
You may want to beef up the welds at the top of that pole. Typically, the angle is resting on the pipe, so the weld only helps stabilize everything. Here, the weld is holding up the sign, looks like they figured on a 4" larger pipe when building it.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

what a bitch

 

[JBurton]

Oh man, I just realized they stacked the cabinets, so the filler covering the clips on the bottom is not removable, nor would you be able to slip the clip between the filler and the frame... Only way to reface without losing one's mind would be to pull the cabinet, set on the ground after removing the trim, and reface there or in the shop.

 

[ProSignTN]

This is the kind of shit that made me "too old for this shit".