help! Busi card cutter & chemical post-crete stuff

[Russell Pavey]

was number 2. http://www.kongcrete.co.uk/

[Hugh Potter]

awesome Russell, thank you!

[Andrew Blackett]

quote Hugh Potter:

1) I’ve seen a business card / card cutter than seems to be automatic and works on cut lines or reg marks, German machine if I recall, either way, anyone know what I mean or, have suggestions for a half decent card cutting machine that can work with A4 / A3+ or bigger and cut A7/6/5 & other sizes of flyer/card???

Is it the duplo dc machines, automatic cutting, creasing and other bits and pieces; http://www.duplo.com/eng/products/folders/dc645.html

Andy

[Hugh Potter]

No, I don;t think so Andy, it was like a guilotine for cutting card & stickets, it could even tilt / angle the blade for media that was loaded askew, it can highly recommended – though I suspect the price tag was a bit big!

[Colin Crabb]

http://www.morgana.co.uk/products/cardxtra/

Looked at one with my previous company – not cheap but if your producing 1000’s per day it was a good option.

[Jason Xuereb]

Sounds like you mean this?

http://www.fotoba.com/index.php/en/digitrim-20-44-64-en

[Hugh Potter]

Thats the Jobbie Jason, thank you!! Colin, I’ll have a look at the other one too, compare prices etc..

thanks guys!

[Steve Morgan]

Hugh,

I haven’t seen anything about a chemical fill. I use ‘Post Fix’ from the local B&Q, very easy to use; tip the contents into thehole around the post and just add water.
I find 1 bag for each post on a 5 foot high x 3 foot wide is adequate provided the holes are only about a foot square x about 2 foot deep.
The bigger the sign, the deeper the holes so you’ll need more.
I nearly always hire a pair of double shovels from the local hire shop, their use produces nice neat accurate holes with a lot less effort.

[Denise Goodfellow]

Rinocrete 😀

[Harry Cleary]

This stuff Hugh? Don’t know about suppliers though.
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[Hugh Potter]

that’s the one Harry,
have spoken to them, only available through them it seems, have to buy a box of ten packs – £90+ + which isn’t too bad but, I so seldom put poles in the ground that I’ll have em for years!!!

[Kevin Flowers]

I use postcrete tried inquiring about KongCrete was told by the person on the other end of the phone he was just going home but he would call me next day without fail, never got the call so i’ve just carried on using the tried & tested. On bigger jobs just take mixer with me, prices i found on line for Kongcrete where not cheap

[Clive Martinez]

Jason,
I’ll get looks like fotoba have started manufacturing the desktop model again…huray! . can you please confirm that you can cut printed vinyl without the blades getting gummed up.
Thanks

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Clive Martinez:

can you please confirm that you can cut printed vinyl without the blades getting gummed up.
Thanks

i use a fotoba all the time and no the blades dont get gummed up, it is a brilliant machine to use, i love it 😀

[Robert Lambie]

Hugh, just use "post-mix". its a premixed concrete with aggregate in it.
you will need 3 bags per hole "approximately" and a large container of water.

dig hole
pour in one bag at a time.
back fill with some water.
pour in next bag and repeat.

remember you spirit level etc.
you dont want to hang the sign till its set.

if we are stuck, we use this. but i prefer the proper hand mixing of cement, stone chips and sand. much better mix and stable.
3 chip, 2 sand, 1 cement ratio.

there is also a tutorial in the demo section of this site on post fixing.

[Adrian Hewson]

HI Hugh Digitrim 64 about £13K but can only cut straight lines (not curves or slanted lines) we looked at it

The Morgana cardextra about £7.5K awesome business card cutter , we bought it

Regards Adrian

[Jason Xuereb]

quote Clive Martinez:

Jason,
I’ll get looks like fotoba have started manufacturing the desktop model again…huray! . can you please confirm that you can cut printed vinyl without the blades getting gummed up.
Thanks

You will get adhesive build up. We clean the blade a couple times a day. Its easy but we are talking about doing 1000-2000 cuts on it. This is on the 20TT.

I simple take off the top cover and wipe behind the blade.

The 64" isn’t really a problem. I clean that once a month.

[Hugh Potter]

thanks everyone for the replies, I think for the amound we’re currently doing, I’ll have to look at cheaper options, I hadn’t realised they’d be so expensive (relative to the amount of work I can give it).

quote Robert Lambie:

Hugh, just use “post-mix”. its a premixed concrete with aggregate in it.
you will need 3 bags per hole “approximately” and a large container of water.

dig hole
pour in one bag at a time.
back fill with some water.
pour in next bag and repeat.

remember you spirit level etc.
you dont want to hang the sign till its set.

if we are stuck, we use this. but i prefer the proper hand mixing of cement, stone chips and sand. much better mix and stable.
3 chip, 2 sand, 1 cement ratio.

there is also a tutorial in the demo section of this site on post fixing.

cheers Rob, I’d pretty much decided that I was going with PostCrete now, the sign is post and plank – precision fitting so it’ll be assembled on the floor and stood into the holes as one piece on this occasion.

I like the look of kongcrete, particularly as I have no outside / dirty storage space for regular powdered / bulk materials but I really don’t need ten packs of kongcrete right now!