cant find large metal

[ucmj22]

Got a request for an estimate on a sign the some of you might have seen. It's one of those highway type signs " Project Funded By The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act." The client wants a quote on 2 possible sizes 84X60 and 120X84. I can't find a piece of metal big enough to do the larger in one piece. any idea where this stuff is usually found.

 

[ucmj22]

any help?

 

[natedawg9640]

http://www.speedymetals.com/

you could try here? might not but it just popped into my head.

 

[Billct2]

We usually build them in panels (as do the state highway depts)

 

[cartar929]

if you can find the 86 x 60 sheet, ask the person that supplies that. 84 x 120 seems like a challenging size of material to be shipped in one piece. i would assume more than likely it would be much more cost efficient to panel it?

little pushy with the free help your posts are 12 minutes apart

 

[ucmj22]

sorry, I forgot to use my not so pushy font. Thanks for the help.

 

[Mosh]

They are build in panels. The ones the state does are extrudted amulinum panels that
slide together. In your chase the 86x60 (you can get 60x120 sheets) should not be a problem, the other one I would do in 3 40"x84" panels.

 

[Dzrt1st]

... The ones the state does are extrudted amulinum panels that slide together...

Not necesarily. Depends on which State you're talking about.

 

[cartar929]

true

 

[natedawg9640]

not to mention outrageously expensive.

 

[ucmj22]

I found a place I can get Galv. steel 120X84, but the piece itself will be $1200. I'm a little afraid to piece together a sign this big with no real face to apply it too. I don't want to have too many bolts showing through on the sign face from all of the bracing that would have to be done.

 

[Mosh]

What is going to hold it up? A sign that size will have to have bracing!

 

[ucmj22]

Im just saying, its not going on a building, or wall of some kind.