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In all cases, if there is any question of somebody getting hurt (liability), all due diligence should be applied. Even if nobody is likely to get hurt, liability issues make proper engineering essential. I will use a qualified engineer in most of those situations. It is unrealistic to expect...

Kerning on type was originally designed into the sort for certain letters that needed to overlap the body of the sort to look good. The kerning was designed by the type maker, and the amount of kerning (along with serif sizes and other relationships) depended on the point size. Spacing between...

Lexel for that. Drill some holes in the wood (and in the panel if you can; at least gouge it up as much as possible). Even better, screws or a retainer system. https://www.sashco.com/products/lexel/

I would not pay a licensed engineer for this type of job. I would just engineer it myself in 10 minutes.

People trying to tell me what to do. Clients can tell me what they want, but let me figure out how to do it.

If you are talking about Florida, I agree, it is not normal. I worked in Florida for a few years - it was not easy to get the required licenses (contrary to some opinions earlier in the thread, the electrical test was hard). But we worked along side "licensed" competitors who knew essentially...

The solution would need to be engineered. Welding on an appropriate sized base plate with gussets would be the ideal solution. Drill oversized holes into the concrete to accept threaded rod of the appropriate size, install the rod in the holes with epoxy (make a little scrap plywood temporary...

For a small shop (under $4M a year), the money is in installation and service. It makes no sense to even think about trying to compete with the wholesale fabricators. Buy your signs from them, mark them up %20 – %40 percent, then make your money on the install. I have to deal with online...

It is illegal in Florida (and most everywhere) to "work under someone else's license." There is no gray area. If you are obtaining permits or performing work that requires a license, and the license holder is not on your payroll, you and the license holder are committing a crime. If something...

What is a "replay to an original strawman fallacy"? I guess I didn't see it. I started making web sites with HTML and CSS back in the early nineties. Things got complicated quick, so I went to Wordpress with its already written PHP code and MySQL database. The along came javascript and Ruby on...

Actually I prefer to argleschnuck the BEGAD and by bpass the hg protocols. Anybody can write and KDJFN code to activate the R-Jable, and if you can't do that may God help you! I use WIX.

Explain that to my brother's wife (my brother died from COVID, only 62), and one of my best friends who died last year (he was older but wasn't ready to die), and to my close friend who owns the company I work for and is right now struggling for his life in the hospital.

I couldn't do that.

The Rhino tables are good quality and inexpensive (and adjustable for the best working height). I build my own from 2x4 lumber and .75" MDO (I use .25" plate glass on mine, but cutting-mat material or a sacrificial hardboard top can work, depending on your needs and workflow). You could...

I would think your current capability (based on the machines you own) would be significantly more profitable and easier to market than commercial digital printing. If you have an existing print business with established clients (whom you have catered to as the print industry has evolved), you...

The regular #1 X-acto with a #11 blade is the most useful cutting tool in our shop. It is particularly well suited for weeding, processing, and installing vinyl graphics. Works OK for cutting light substrate (I prefer a regular box knife for that). Because we buy these in bulk and they are...

Anybody can produce that print. Creating the art on a transparent background, however, will present a significant challenge.

netsol sez: "not sure if it is still the case, but the british do not allow kapersky to be used on government devices they recognize a bunch of russian hackers, masquerading as an antivirus company for what they are." Kaspersky was one of the guys on VIRUS-L in the eighties. He was either in...

They are all decent, but I find Bitdefender overall the best. Anybody who thinks Bitdefender is an inferior product probably doesn't understand how it works and its comprehensive capabilities. 50 years computer experience including experimental work on self-replicating software at the...

I don't understand how a small commercial sign printing shop can be viable in the face of current trade prices. Our printers and laminators were sold off years ago, along with the 8000 square foot shop. Now we concentrate on sales, design, installation and maintenance and our profit per...