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When he first start it's 'Joe's PLUMBING'. When Joe builds a solid following, it's 'JOE'S Plumbing'. There are multitudes of business that have succeeded with odd names. What the hell is a Pepsi, a Coors or a Budweiser, or a Kroger, an Aldi or a Piggly Wiggly? A Starbucks? A Kohl's? A DeWalt...

Sounds like you are in a great situation. First: it's not just print. It sounds closer to a real sign shop. Second: existing customers. (I've been doing this a long time, I don't bid anymore). Third: a full year of mentorship, priceless.

It's not a design problem as those might be too numerous to list, but instead a fab problem. I don't have a photo handy since it was in the early 90's but, I witnessed this production-fabrication screw up of a neon lit channel letter set that was mounted on a modern day country store until the...

Overhead lights get blocked by tall vehicles in bay. For the install bay, I have linear lighting around the wall at 100" tall. Eight foot clearance below so they don't get hit by a 4x8 panel or a step ladder.

GaSouthpaw offered good advise. A fellow signman once told me he loved his new designers work, but everything he drew was 49" tall. Meaning he had no concept of how to build what he designed. I have acquired and still add to a folder containing such useful information as building material...

I'm running a VM (Virtual Machine) on my Win7 Pro for an old PS 6.0 program. It was hair pulling to set up, but no subscription for the four or five times a month I actually need PS.

Polycarbonate at 1/8" would be 49 lbs. 3/16" would be 74 lbs. If your bucket is steel tube it's fairly easy to rig a jib using 2"x4"s. Only remove top and one side of retainer. Poly will bend plenty to attach hanger bar across top using c clamps or as I prefer vise clamps. IF it were 1/8" I'd...

Your 20' will turn out to be 24' or more with the corrugation. I agree with damon CA21, flat panels are the way to go.

Free samples and Gino's response is positive. It's all good.

Every good sign truck I've ever commandeered has at least 3 spoons, 2 forks, a spork, a few straws (work great to blow shavings and dust away from a hole while drilling) and a couple packs of room temperature of Duke's mayonnaise packets stashed away in the console. How do you eat without these...

It was a harrowing and stressful few days, but I managed to create a virtual OS (XP) in Win7 pro to run an old Photoshop program. Something to consider.

Haven't you heard, the climate is all fake. Because if you can't understand the science, then you can't explain it.

I vote for the extra door. Even if you can't pull a 53' all the way through the door it appears there would be enough room to back at least a straight truck down beside the building for deliveries or loading. The extra door would be useful in the mild season, depending on your location, Could...

Other than the heat sink issue, spot on J.

Check your manufactures mounting instructions for power supplies, transformers and ballasts. They all produce heat and work better & last longer when in contact with a heat sink. Many years ago I lost many dollars on warranties for ballasts which had been double nutted, hence creating a space...

How much is it worth in bitcoin? Or maybe beanie babies?

Don't know if Illustrator will do it, but in Coral you can auto center trace and then contour 3mm outside. That'll five you 6mm stroke.

I got a 2" flat and a can of linseed oil. Oh yeah, and a pencil.

Use a wooden yard stick. apply several layers of masking tape in the very center of your vinyl. At the 1" mark on the ruler put a pushpin thru it and into the layered masking tape, then cut a small notch at the 26" mark on the yardstick. Place an exacto in the notch and rotate the yardstick...

Weed these people out. As several of you have said: Ask. With all the technology, logistics, accounting and so forth that we small businesses deal with most I fell safe to assume most of us haven't read Dale Carnegie, Zig Zigler or Brian Tracy. We must learn to sell. Good salespeople know...