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  1. Too many sign shops!!

    Just did a search on the talking yellow pages here and ended up with 24 pages with ten shops to a page and thats within a 50 mile radius of my zip code,.....and that is only the shops who paid to advertise there,...back in '78 when I first started out on my own after a couple years of doing the...
  2. Commodore: Bringin' it back

    Has anyone got any info on the proposed retail on this unit?,...sounds like the ideal platform for design with an extra removabale drive you could have one for mac and one for windows and thus have the best of both worlds without having to be married to apple,....
  3. Madhouse on History Channel

    thanks Mikeifg,.....you are right about the big money needed to play the game,...back when I first started I could get by on my talent and hard work,there was only one or two races a year on tv,...once it got to the point that every week there was a nationwide coast to coast broadcast deadline I...
  4. Madhouse on History Channel

    Until you've spent the better part of at least a decade in strange towns each week and staying in different motels,..eating all your meals in restaurants,hours upon hours driving to and from racetracks you wouldn't understand,..the folks at the "Cup" level have only so much time they can...
  5. Madhouse on History Channel

    Lets get real here,..we are all in the advertising business in a way of speaking,...two college kids from Wake Forest U here in town sold an idea to the networks,...the network bosses thought it would boost ratings ,....thus they can sell ad time for more bux because of the higher ratings,...the...
  6. Madhouse on History Channel

    Where did he hail from Smott? there were alot of camp followers as we called them and they came and went alot,... especially the boozers,...I met alot of sign men along the way,..did he have a nickname? If it wasn't from the '79 to '93 era probably not,... the only work after those dates I did...
  7. Madhouse on History Channel

    Actually it was kinda fun,...often as not the teams would schedule practice sessions while we painted at the tracks back then,....seems our sponsor would make sure there were emt teams on hand as many of the jobs we had to do were somewhat dangerous to begin with,wall work, and billboards...
  8. Letter Installation on Uneven Block

    I would stretch a string line that's spaced away from the wall evenly the length of the line of copy off of two nails,....I then would adjust the pads by cutting the studs so that the letters match up to the string before putting any adhesive on the pads,..there shouldn't be that many variables...
  9. Madhouse on History Channel

    I grew up within earshot of bowman grey,....spent many a saturday night as a youngster going to sleep listening to the announcer and the roar of the cars,,,,Grew up to spend twenty five years painting racetrack signage all over the southeast for "Winston Cup"...
  10. PNC 1000a vinyl won't move...

    sounds like an internal gear on one of the stepper motors has slipped off the shaft and or stripped the teeth on the gear,...or a belt has come loose seems the one that drives the grit wheel has a problem from your description
  11. 10' x 200' Sign!?!?!

    Dan the simplest way would be to use a stretch face,...build an pipe frame to stretch the face on and use ratchet straps to install it,...the total cost would be less than a half of just the panels and the install is about half the time,...that is why the outdoor companies use the method,..as...
  12. 10' x 200' Sign!?!?!

    Usually with jobs this big its easier to paint them,...by the time you price the vinyl paint is much more cheaper and the profit margin is ten times that of vinyl,..usually I would do the install then paint it on location unless that is not an option at which point I would do it in 20' sections...
  13. Have to go get a cat scan today!!! :(

    Joe it feels like a strand of barbwire about twenty feet long,.. I've had eight kidney stones and I can assure you it is very painful,..passed them all except one I had while painting at Pocono International Raceway,...after six weeks on just about any kind of dope(morphine,demerol,dilotta,and...
  14. Got my soldier home last week.

    Tell him thank you for serving his country if you would for me,...(From another proud US Service Mans dad),..Looks like my son is gonna make a career out of it ,he signed up for six more years after his first six year tour( 3 tours of active duty) ,...
  15. Another Anagraph AE-75e Question

    a usb to serial cable adapter will work fine as long as the cable you use between it and the plotter is a null modem cable(some manufacturers call it an hp cable),...also make sure the port settings in device manager are correct for the port that windows assigns for the serial port(com 1,..com 2...
  16. Wrapping a globe (sphere)

    Have you considered painting the globe light blue and just puting the land masses on as contour cuts,...seems that would be the simplest way,..,.,
  17. netbook

    Not that I would advise getting a netbook to do design on but if yo are dead set on one get the asus eeepc 1000,......You cannot multitask on netbooks which means running only one primary program at a time,.....the small processor chips in them just aren't designed to handle multitasking,...that...
  18. Favorite Quote from a Customer Today

    A few years back I started getting phone calls asking for appointments for hair cuts and perms,....seems a local Hair salon had 4000 cards printed and they had my phone number on them,.,,,I called the salon and told the owner about the problem and she said they already had the cards printed and...
  19. NETHASP Error (15): no active license manger was found???

    This is a message to tell you your dongle drivers are not compatible with windows 7 and or your dongle is fried,...call the manufacturer of the software that uses the dongle and find out if there are windows 7 hasp drivers available and or right click the program file(exe file) that launches the...
  20. plotter pen

    Most plotters use the old hp plotter pens which are getting kind of hard to find,..,.In the past I have used plain old bic pens with enough vinyl wrapped around them to make it so that they will fit into the blade holder clamp and tighten enough to keep it secure during the plot process. any old...
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