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I agree with Kerning, let them make the offer. If you are really thinking it's time to move on, don't get greedy, small independent sign businesses with no assets are not as easy sell.

We are using Imron right now.

Yep, worst was when I was slicing some vinyl between lines of text and somehow slipped and stuck the xacto in my gut...

We carry paint markers in the truck for little touch ups

Yes

Yep, we did the same, shipped it to them and they fixed and shipped back. Worked great.

I sold some useless to me HP printers for a couple hundred bucks on Craigslist. One guy bought one to try to get going for his sister who was studying architecture, the other to a guy who wanted to do art prints.

We would either paint or sheet with vinyl

I worked in a shop where we had glass handler "suction cups". They worked great on big sheets

Way too young. RIP Bob

I have spring clamped pieces of angle to it to hold it flat, several short pieces, so it can get slid in a few feet before the first angle gets removed. Then remove other pieces as it's slid in.

Lots of good advice. If a seam is ok, just knifing it would solve the problem. Mounting direct to the wall should have thicker panels Next step up, panels mounted to a frame are more stable. Banner frame is a good option and wall vinyl is too.

Are you a sign maker? That sign looks like it was really old when they put some new faces over it. From the looks of that "bolt" it's toast inside of the sign. Toss it.

"home brew fluid of windshield washer fluid and baby shampoo" Try Rapid tac

Thru bolts w/wingnuts.

There's also Flex steel and other substrates that look like mag sheeting but are mag receptive

First thing comes to mind is polycarbonate.

and be sure to tell them the wall will look nasty if the letters are removed

They suck. They always end up looking bad and fall off too easy. But if someone insists I make them, but put a disclaimer in the proposal.

I never really got the knack of glass gilding, but have done lots of surface gilding. A tricky part is how to keep gold from sticking where you don't want it. This can be done using a vinyl mask. But that too can present issues. A method I use is to cut a tiny outline that gets pulled right...