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I make reverse-channel letters with <3" HDU foam, and 1/8" painted aluminum overlay. Sexy stuff for small interior signage and saves a lotta time fabricating aluminum returns.

screen printing ink melts vinyl? that's new to me. sounds like a great idea, however. laminate coroplast with orange vinyl (or just spray paint) and screen print your copy. ...I'd still be printing them, on orange vinyl, applying a full sheet of coroplast at a time, and cutting to size...

at first-glance, I'd say you have some alignment issues.

+1 apparently it is due to being unable to see if there are cracks in the helmet? I forget BUT I have been known to wrap a few hardhats with vehicle-wrap grade vinyl. anything meant for thermalforming should do the trick, but let your client know that OSHA will flip-out on you, if given the...

I'm sure Ray Rice still has a lot to contribute, as well. :) Nothing against the offender, but if it weren't for moderation ...we'd all most likely be gone by now.

check the top of the monument sign for access. We will usually concrete-in steel posts, slide monument over top, and weld sign frame (or fasten) to post.

+1. I dabble in other brands for various colors, but my black reflective purchases still remain with 3M.

hopefully I'm not derailing. I've searched for old threads and this seems like a good place to add a query: Out of curiousity, who has the whitest reflective white? most are greyish (coolgrey3, tbe), much like my stock Oracal 5700, and I've got some 3M/Gerber 280i headed my way hoping to...

we always shop at trade shows, best deals hands-down, and hook the purchase to be expensed as close the the end of the year as possible for tax incentives. also noted, if you're looking for a super-deal, that new models released at/around trade show time drive-down the price on the previous...

nice guide! :thumb: "reflective, not electric" is the first thought that pops into my head when a client wants reflective vinyl for their building graphics. I know exactly what they're thinking, and always get to be the guy who brings them back to reality.

Arlon DPF8000, can't sing its praises enough. got a free short-roll from my supplier a while back, and has been my go-to for difficult to stick to applications ever since. coolers, constr. cones, wooden doors, etc. ...its alllllllllgood

greetings from Wisconsin! yet another life-r here, starting out cleaning toilets & mowing lawns here at the shop since I was 9 and finally getting to put my hands on some sign panels & tools when I was able to get a work permit at the age of 13. Now 31, and still can't get enough of it!

got a whole machine-worth of parts here, my stock is about to go up!

no way to salvage the old faces? I save them all the time, despite the yellowing/ghosting of vinyl graphics removed, by printing on white transluscent vinyl to give it a brand-new look!

:Welcome:2:signs101: gonna take me a bit of reading to come-up with a proper response, but it's comin' :)

architectural drawings are a mess. overlapping lines with strokes and random artifacts. even if it was vectorized, your plotter would be bogged-down for hours and hours trying to plot every single line AND it still wouldn't look anything close to what you see on your screen. printing it would...

what does your test draw look like? issue could be one of a few things: 1) dying printhead (worst case) 2) static (tech's go-to answer for "I have no clue"), which shouldn't be the case for 1/4 printheads 3) bad/settled&seperated ink (best-case). try a head wash to flush the system, and...

you can get custom colors made by 3M, at a minimum order of $5000 or so.

aye, $65-100 per hour per installer, or bust. (unless it was cash, for a friend!)

high-density urethane foamboard rocks. handcarved, sandblasted, routed ....it does it all. varying levels of densities are available, as well as thickness, but you can always bond layers together with gorilla glue to make thicker objects. google and youtube can be your friend, merchant...