how do i fix Metal letter fixings?

[Neil Kelly]

Hi John
I have found that a grout fix works well for brick or concrete I use Grip fill pumped into pre drilled holes that have been blown out to remove dust I have a great blow tool that I acquired from a hilti chemical bolt fixing kit. A bike pump would do the same job.
Pump the grip fill or panel adhesive into the hole and slightly bend the pins so when they push into the holes they put pressure on the side of the hole this will enable the letters to grip the wall while the adhesive goes hard, If you want them to stand off the wall use a piece of 20 mm polystyrene to act as a spacer then when the adhesive has gone of you can just break it away makes a mess but hey what kid doesn’t like breaking up polystyrene.

( is that spelt right Steve oops there goes this weeks profit ) If you’re fixing them onto a panel then you will need some nuts and washers and if you want to space them of the panel B&Q do some thin ally tube that can be cut to length a bit of a pain if you have a lot of letters but it does a good job, Hope this helps.

Neil…

ps you will need to make a paper fixing template first

[steve]

Neil a very nicely laid out post and only 3 mistakes! a mere 30p in the kitty keep it up you are showing great promise …..for a Southener 😆 😆

[Neil Kelly]

I may reside down in the Smoke but im a Mank Through and Through most definatly A northern Monkey. Il over look that insult this time but as we have spoke on the phone before in the future il try harder to use a broader northern twang if we speak again, allreat me duck.

Neil..

[steve]

he he he well done Neil…….these boards are marvellous 😆 😆

[Steve Lamb]

John
On the back of Neil’s advice about using B&Q ali tubing for spacing letters.

If you think you might use alot of them then it may be worth buying a few lengths of tubing and getting em machine cut.

We use a local small engineering firm to cut ours, if you have trouble finding a company to do this then your local sheet metal workers will point you in the right direction. It won’t cost much either, cost us about £25 quid to have 4 lengths cut to 20mm. Much easier than trying to use a Hack Saw.

Cheers

[Simon Clayton]

I cut my tubing with, plumbers pipe cutting tool..works very well

Cheers

Simon

[Steve Lamb]

I like the idea Simon, nice one.

Cheers

[John Singh]

Thanks Neil and the rest of the Guys

Very useful information indeed. Before this I was completely baffled.
I like the idea of ali tubing and also the spacing technique

With the ali idea it would seem that if putting letters on a panel the ali tubing would act as a spacer and all that’s necessary is a nut at the rear.

All so simple!! (-) (-)

Cheers