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If you're not an established shop, you will have to do spec work at times. This will hopefully make the customer more comfortable working with you. If you're an established shop, your portfolio should keep you from doing spec work for the most part. Every now and then, even very established...

Inkscape is free and does an excellent job of vector tracing. Throw it in there and make a few test passes and you'll be good to go. At most, you'll need to manually insert the trademark symbol which is no big deal.

Go online and look at what the competition charges. That will define "market value" for your items. Then you need to think whether you need to charge extra for things like design, setup, and "time with the customer".

I don't live in Australia nor am I a lawyer, but my opinion is to ignore them. It seems they have the US equivalent of an application patent which likely isn't actually applicable/enforceable. What you want to do is have them waste as much money as possible trying to get them to enforce this...

I actually disagree. I bet they have very cheap labor. If they have someone working for them making $8-10/hr, it's pretty easy to make that labor profitable. Given how comfortable people are with computers now, it's not really all that crazy to expect a $10/hr employee to be able to produce...

Send them a bill for your time. They may not pay it, but it's worth a shot.

I don't get this mentality. I see it all over the place. People selling $500 worth of stuff for $150-200. Why? What's your justification? Because before you were making $12/hr at your other job and now you "own your own business" and make $15/hr? It's one thing to undercut the competition...

Try Drillman1 on eBay.

Try a different primer as an experiment. Paint formulas change often and without notice.

Very well known and reputable company. Never used one but the are one of the more well known, established companies out there. A lot of router companies can achieve what you're looking for. Also, as I'm sure you know, a lot of the prices provided are quite negotiable. I'm pretty sure...

4x8 CNC Router with a 3hp Spindle. Vacuum table. Drag Knife. Optical sensing for digital registration. These are all pretty common in the CNC world. The router itself with the spindle should be around $20k. The vac table ranges from $2-8k (depends on the vacuum motor you buy). I believe...

People talk up vehicle wraps because 1. It's a booming marketing. 2. Most prefer doing a $2-3000 job over 10 - $300 jobs. If you can make more per hour/day/year doing apparel, then stick with it.

I've come to the conclusion that once a Windows OS gets a bad reputation, whether it's valid or not, magically the OS is the blame for everything. The vast majority of computer issues are because of operating error. It's a far safer bet that the user screwed something up.

Since Windows Vista, from my understanding, Windows has been building on a very similar platform. That's why driver and software compatibility is becoming less and less of an issue. So can you safely use Windows 10? Most likely yes. You'll have limited compatibility issues when you upgrade...

If you see this as a problem that you'll have regularly, I'd go ahead and do an actual "lab" testing. A good engineering school with have a civil engineering lab where you can easily do this testing. You might even be able perform it at the local community college. If you decide to go this...

Wait 3 years until they start calling asking if you want to buy their sign back...

Glad everything worked out. I believe Paypal to be just as bad as any other credit card processor. I find when you do the right thing and follow their rules, they rule in your favor. If you do something wrong (most common is shipping without tracking) then they will simply say "You broke the...

Fuzzy tops of PVC is down to your bits not being very sharp. You can cut a lot of PVC with pretty sharp bits but the top edge will fuzz up. This problem shows up way more on interior grade stuff. Exterior grade PVC doesn't fuzz the same way. Instead of masking, look into buying less...

Here's what happens in situations like this. Paypal puts a freeze. Then they go through the process. It's the same as any credit card processing company. The process may end immediately after you show them your policy. If you have a written policy that any issues must be addressed within 7...

HDU has absolutely no structural quality. You cannot put a few I bolts in it and expect it to hold. Even if you drill a hole, fill it with Gorilla glue, and stick the bolt in, it will fail. Sad to say, this is very very well documented. With HDU you either need to glue it to MDO (which many...