Aluminium painted panel suppliers

[Gwaredd Steele]

Can you just not flood coat it if it’s just black?

[Warren Beard]

would rather not as need nice edges as well.

cheers

Waren

[Mark Pettit]

try a new firm called Alubond, speak to jay..

[Kevin Flowers]

Mark
he is after Aluminium not Composite Jay only does the latter

Kev

[Peter Normington]

Warren
ally is not cheap, as you are aware, you need to cut it and then probably round the corners,
sounds simple but you need machines costing a lot to do it properly,
then it needs to be prepped and powder coated, so in all not going to be cheap.
Ashby are usually on the nose with quality and price,
I have tried others, but quality has not been as good.

I doubt if you will better ashby by much more than a tenner for a square metre of ally, with a good finish,

Peter

[Robert Lambie]

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Pavement signs are cheap to buy, so i am with you on the customer will want cheap! but thats not necesarily "your" problem.
Its a bit like buying a Cordless Screw Gun. You kill the battery or break the battery, the battery costs as much as a new gun and all with it. so you buy the new gun. same thing…

anyway. sit the old one ontop of a cutting of aluminium. draw around it.
using some G-clamps. clamp to the table with as little overhang as possible. continually moving as you progress. i.e. move, reclamp.
use a fine tooth metal cutting blade in the jigsaw. "goggles on" 😀
cut the shape out and then file.
flood coat in vinyl.

if you dont have any aluminium it would be best trying to buy a scrap offcut from a supplier cut to size and jigsaw the corners.

or, just call someone like Signwaves group and buy "balnk panels" on their own. come in white and black as standard.
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and yeh, i do know you have a dodgy MAC and keeps crashing with toolbar. just rubbing yer nose in it. 😉 :lol1:

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[Kevin Flowers]

Warren
if it is for a pavement swing sign these are normally made from Galvanized steel sheet approximately .8mm

Kev

[Warren Beard]

Hi guys

you’ve missed the point, it’s just the painting of it (a panel for a projection swinging sign over a shop) The panel costs £25 but there is an excess charge of another £35 because it is not white (it’s black) So £60 for a £25 panel 😕

I’m looking for a company that might be able to do this as part of another batch or doesn’t charge excess for non white coating?

@ Rob: I don’t have the toolbar as it still doesn’t work on my mac with Firefox

cheers

Warren

[Warren Beard]

quote Robert Lambie:

and yeh, i do know you have a dodgy MAC and keeps crashing with toolbar. just rubbing yer nose in it. 😉 :lol1:

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missed that :lol1: very funny Mr Lambie (:)

[Tim Painter]

Ashby don’t powder coat in house.

I do think the £35 excess for black is slightly high as I can guarantee plenty of black will be going through the powder coat company they use.

Look local Warren for a powder coater they will no doubt have plenty of fabricators they work for.
Ashby are very close to me but I use another local source for certain stuff.