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Two sheets of Polymetal back to back. Treated wood posts. Finials from Home Depot. Reflective white. Brad in Kansas City

You can get acceptable results using thin Weld On. The trick is using capillary action to spread the glue evenly under the flat cutout letters. 1.5mm is too thin for the backer, in my opinion. I would not use less than 3/16" or 1/4" for the backer. I don't know the equivalent metric thicknesses...

I doubt that these scams are connected to the Chinese government. They are just unscrupulous individuals looking for cash. China is a signatory to the Berne Convention regarding intellectual property. I don't know the country's history regarding their respect for intellectual property treaties...

Prevent light leaks If you design adjoining colors, it's standard practice to trap one with the other. Otherwise, as the vinyl shrinks you will have unsightly light leaks. Regarding traps, I think most people try to make them as small as possible. But I don't think it's critical. I have let...

Boss made comments about the pushiness of the sales dude. He often hangs up on people like that. The fact that he bought the subscription anyway tells me he thought it was a good deal. And he said it was 50 downloads a week, not a month, so I was wrong about the quantity. I asked him if unused...

Thanks for the info, Fred. My boss bought a subscription. I don't know what he paid. Brad

Yearly subscription for 400 dollars. Fifty downloads a month. Includes graphics, vehicle outlines and a font collection. What has been your experience? Seems like a good deal. Brad

Our standard procedure is to tell the client to ask their body shop how long to wait. A typical answer will be three weeks. If the client wants it done quicker we will do it as long as he knows there's no guarantee of success. Our in-house painting is with Matthews Acrylic Polyurethane. If we...

visual800, In answer to your question, the original deal with the Dollar Photo Club was a year subscription for ten downloads a month for ten dollars a month, or 100 downloads a year for 90 dollars. Unused downloads rolled over to the next month, and downloads beyond the ten per month were...

This is a good point. The irony is not lost on me that when graphic artists complain about prices for clipart or photos, they are saying that the graphic artists who produce the pictures and artwork should make less money. At a dollar a download the original artist must have made practically...

Adobe said they were having problems getting payment from my PayPal account. When I called PayPal I was told my account was fine. When I contacted Adobe again (by chat, as they have stopped telephone support for Adobe Stock) they said I needed to call PayPal and request that "PayPal clear the...

Andy, Questions like this are good. Discussing intellectual property issues is not beating a dead horse. The amount of misinformation floating around on this subject, even among designers, is tremendous. Since we deal with copyright and trademark issues as part of our work, should we not strive...

These questions are not so much grammar questions as style questions. Regarding time of day: The Chicago Manual of Style says this: Figures are used in designations of time with a.m. or p.m. (lowercase with periods), the preferred form, or AM and PM (small caps with no periods). Whichever you...

Pauly, Are you over 100 years old? I first saw that word in an advertisement in an issue of The Hub automotive magazine from 1899. The ad described it as the easy way to letter a vehicle. According to one dictionary, decalcomania is an anglicized version of the original french word...

I like no apostrophe. My reasoning is that the center does not belong to visitors. It is for visitors. So, not a possessive. If it is viewed as possessive, it seems like it should be a plural possessive. So the apostrophe would follow the 'S' rather than precede it. I also prefer the cleaner...

WildWest, This a good point. Though 'willful blindness' is not something written into copyright law, it is a thing. It has been established by federal court decisions, not just in copyright infringement cases, but in trademark infringement cases as well. Willful Blindness Here is an example...

I think these are good questions to bring up. If someone brings you an image, how do you know whether it's pirated or properly licensed? How far are you required to pursue the matter to find out? Do you ask for a sales receipt? Other than asking, how would you know? And how would you know if...

This works very well. Have a bunch of MDO scraps for spacing, each marked for the appropriate size letter. Plenty of spacers makes the job go fast. Brad in Kansas City

This is a cool idea. So, which way do you install the T-nut? Fangs up or fangs down? Or do you use the T-nuts that have holes in the flange instead of fangs? And what the heck is 404? I know it's not an error code. :smile: Brad in Kansas City