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  1. Cooley Bright

    Their site says their awnings meet California fire codes and have passed the nfpa 701 standard whatever that is, and are UL listed .....if you are talking about their eradication fluid,..that stuff will float you out of the room it is so aromatic,..I would assume it is very flammable,....Don't...
  2. Alignment of Gemini Lettering?

    Do like it is in the pic,...butt the round letters and space the rest accordingly,...no brainer,.. the round letters being larger by the very nature of their proper letter forms will be your limitation here.if the bottom of those letters are even on the round letters, then the pattern is wrong...
  3. Sign Painting Kit?

    Baby oil is mineral oil with perfume added,..mineral oil is what I use,....it is a non drying oil and works great & it's cheap cheap..you can buy it in any drug store,.....it doesn't attract pests like lard oil here in the southern climates and doesn't smell bad once it's been on them...
  4. .dat file

    Often as not I'll open the file in notepad under the all files type and usually if it is from a certain program it can be seen in the first couple of lines of readable copy amongst the machine language,..then I rename the file with the proper suffix for that program and alot of times this will...
  5. Your First Sign.

    I don't talk about it in public and try desperately to forget it,..it was horrible and looked twice as bad ,I was a hot shot helper in a billboard shop fresh out of art school and tried to do quill work with a deersfoot fitch,.... red casual on white with a black drop shadow,..I cringe when I...
  6. Sign Painting Kit?

    Here's a link to an old digitized speedball book hopefully that will help,..looks like Jill has the list down pretty good,.... http://www.3dsignco.com/Speedball.zip
  7. Old Paint you missing any footwear?

    Joe don't wear shoes didn'tcha know?
  8. How would you go about redoing this sign?

    This is an opportunity to establish a long term relationship with an agency with the potential to bring in more work in the future,..by the very nature of their business it can lead to you becoming one of their primary production referrals if you handle this professionally,..that is the reason I...
  9. Is there anything you won't print/paint?

    If I don't feel comfortable doing it,..it ain't gonna happen,..and it takes one helluva oddball screwy scenario to make me feel uncomfortable,...them's my rules,.......
  10. Yoohoo!! Got the 4B running! Back in Business!

    Check the rods the knife assembly rides on,..one may have become bent in the past somehow forcing the blade further down on those cuts,...spinning the rods so they are even distance from the roller or replacing them will resolve an issue like this
  11. So how do you learn to letter by hand?

    get a speedball lettering book from that art supply you worked at 1st,...then go to the library and check out any textbooks you can find,...C.H. Johnstons text on lettering and illumination is a bit old but has all the letter-forms you might need,..another is by Helm Wotzkow and is an excellent...
  12. Is it customer's fault or mine

    In 99 out of 100 design programs and word processors there is a little squiggly red line that appears under misspelled words,and usually if you select the text with this underline and right click there will be a menu in windows' programs that give you the options for a correction...a lot of...
  13. Bible Imprinting

    The process is called foil stamping if i recall correctly ,...or maybe hot foil stamping,...you need to find a local printer with a source for this procedure,...hope this helps ya,...
  14. Happy Birthday to Fred Weiss

    HBD Fred,...
  15. Graphtec Cuttting Problem

    sounds like you have the steps set wrong in the command menu for gp-gl,....
  16. battery powered plotter??

    let me get this right,...you want a unit to save the cost of $40 worth of vinyl thats gonna cost you $200+,...?????
  17. Saturday... time to clean the kit

    hey,...that looks like mine except sumbody did squiggley stuff all oper it,....damn fine gerstner sign kit my fine sir
  18. How to remove gold leaf?

    having done hundreds of firetrucks over the years I would suggest following Si Allen's advice first,..the clear will not stick to the gold as well as it does on other parts of the lettering ,so it should come off with duct tape fairly easily,...from there you can attack the size with solvents...
  19. Who's got the oldest signmaking computer?

    Amy,..thermazone is the parent company for cadlink and signlab ,...I know because the dongle number on my old dos based version of signlab (thermazone cadlink 1.1) was number 15,....it came on one floppy and there was a simple homemade binder for a manual and dongle also in the envelope,...in...
  20. How long have you been in the Sign Business?

    Spent the summer of 68 sweeping the sign shop floor washing brushes and doing repaints at the age of fourteen,...did signs off and on till I quit art school in the early 70's went to work full time in '75 and been at it since then so thats 42 years counting part time and 35 full time been self...
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