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How is this made
- Thread starter ZipSeb
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Hopefully not just fixed to to the wooden slats!
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JBurton
Signtologist
We just revisted a bunch of signs we installed in 2015, all powder coated, and all of them look like chalky trash.
This looks like a piece of .125" aluminum, glued to a 2x2x.125 aluminum angle frame, with gemini letters, with 1.5" aluminum angle clips, probably mounted to that vertical metal piece running behind the wood. Why they'd opt for a pan head screw over a counter sunk screw is beyond me. Also, the installer deserves to have his impact license revoked for the horrors he wrought upon that bottom screw...
CanuckSigns
Active Member
Lol, it took me a few minutes to figure out what you are talking about with the screw, you Americans and your inferior Phillips screws, Robertson square heads all day long!
GraphixGirl79
New Member
That looks like .080 aluminum facing welded to an extrusion, such as EX-7 then painted. The letters are most likely a Gemini 1/4" aluminum letter painted with a pin mount method, bolted on from behind. We have made a few signs like this over the years. I assume it's non illuminated? We could certainly build this for you, but we are in Canada. a little bit far i would assume for farming out, assuming your in the states somewhere?
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more likely, yes, a bracket on top that you sit the sign, like and L bracket and at the bottom another one like a reverse L to be screwed it, just like the screw at the bottom. also, I can say that is powder coated including the screws.
Gino
Premium Subscriber
Perhaps you have a lousy powder coater ??
JBurton
Signtologist
Yes, square is king, but aside from the trailer industry here, nobody will touch them here in the states.
You may be right, but depending on the scale of sign, tube would be twice the cost of angle and require extra long hardware and twice as much drilling to install. For whatever reason, one of my salesmen always specs tube frames, and I'm forever having him revise drawings and specs from tube to angle.
Beats me, I know my matthews paints are bullet proof, and much less hassle having a painter in house.
Except orange. F*ck me everything orange has the most rapid fade of any color, as far as both paint and vinyl go.
Texas_Signmaker
Very Active Signmaker
Installed some signs shipped from a company in Canada last week. The square threw me off..I was worried about stripping it or my bit. We use torx
JBurton
Signtologist
I love the buried head wood screws that use torx, otherwise I never touch them unless I'm reclaiming a magnet from a HDD.