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Frames for Changeable Name Plates
Hi all,
We have been asked to quote for a job which involves having a main dibond sign on posts with eight frame type things attatched which can hold name plates that can be changed on a regular basis. If you acn imagine the main sign will be say 4x4ft with eight frames attatched in these frames will go small name plates which will be changed regularly.
This sign will be placed outside and so the fames need to be lockable or at least fairly secure.
Has anyone ever used this kind of thing or know where to get them, I was going to make eight frames from slim trim and eight name plates from 3mm dibond but the frame will look really big when made to a small size.
Any help on this matter would be much appreciated folks, I know what I need the frame to do I just don’t know what to use.
Cheers Guys.
Aaron 😀
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years ago, when i worked in a fabrication shop, i made a frame for a friend of the boss, for a similar purpose, well, i assume a similar purpose, this was for a small group of units he’d been asked to do a sign for, showing the six different businesses in there, but due to the nature of these places, they were often changed,
i made it so that it was a open top, square frame, with 12.5mm ali channel, tig’d to make the basic frame shape, then the front -so to speak- was divided into six equal spaces using 30mm x 2mm ali strip, i cut it out to form a lattice, tig’d and then finished, the edges and the top then had a then a more ‘tidy’ finish trim around the front to hide the channel and the top edge, which if i recall, was a simple 30mm x 1.5mm ali 90 deg’ right angle section, the top piece being hinged at one end and a small ‘fancy’ lock on the othercorner, bit like a chrome hasp and staple, but the lock was mointed to the hasp and all one piece, as apposed to using a padlock, tho now a days i’m sure there’s a better concealed option,
he made the board a single piece (duno what the board was), marked out where the frame went (easy when it was 30mm wide !) and the applied each name on a seperate white piece of vinyl, this was then stuck to the board,
as it was him changing it each time, he would simply cut the new name / design, stick it to white vinyl, go to the site, and in about 5 mins he’d have the old ripped off and the new applied!
if the sign is still there (doubtful !) i’ll grab a pic for ya, i’ll be passing on weds/thurs, jeez, must be 7yr ago now !!
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wow, tanks for the detailed description on how you made this, I think there is a lot of work in this on this particular project as the customer is working to a budget, I ‘ll keep it mind for future reference and thanks again for the post.
Aaron. 😀 😀
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no worries dude ! don’t ya just hate those budgets ??
the one made wasnt particularly quick to make, it took me about a day all told, i rarely work to plans, i just have an idea, occasionally do a rough sketch and off i go (thankfully i don’t do my signs in the same way !), so there was little design time, just cut all the ali, make the frame, get a mate to help me tig weld it and off it went,
come to think of it, my ‘mate’ still owes me at least a night out down the local for that !!
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