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Interlocking Sign: impact auto body
We have been asked to do create a “free floating” post sign. The customer has a smaller sign already but wants a 4′ x 6′ version. The existing sign is constructed similar to the diagram. The sign interlocks into the posts so there is no hardware.
Is there a formula to figuring out the slot size we should cut on the substrate and pole.
We are using pvc posts and 1″ thick Komacel.
Thank you
Bryan
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are these posts flat mate?
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Sorry for the poor post description. The post is hollow like this http://www.hooverfence.com/vinyl/vinyl4x4.htm
I suppose it doesn’t have to be that way but the customer wanted it like the one they already had with no visible hardware or frame.
What do you suggest?
Thank you,
Bryan
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are you familure with a pan/tray type sign blank?
2 no. 3inch x 3inch aluminium posts.
1 no. pan sign blank with 2inch returns
right and left returns tech bolted into the side of the legs from the rear of the sign.sorry if thats not making sense. 😕
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Bryan, how are you going to install this?
If you set the posts in the ground first then you are going to have to force the posts apart to get the panel in to the reccesses, are the posts flexible enough to allow you to do this? I would also think you would need some way to lock the panel in place once it had been slotted in. -
good point martin!
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Robert I am not familiar with that. Still new to this so this is the first one we are doing. Is there somewhere I can see an example of this?
We did look at the existing sign and it is constructed like this, but smaller.
The sign is inserted up and then down where it locks in place and is very secure.
Martin – the customer is actually going to install it. Posts will have to be put in place loosely, then the sign locked in place and the post set.
I see a lot of these signs around the area so I assumed this was a common install. I will try to get some pictures to post.
Thanks for the help.
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Here is a pic of the completed sign.
Thanks to Iain Gordon for the Registration Dot Tip in a previous post which we used to register the colors. Worked beautifully.
Sign was approx 4′ x 6′, viny was applied all dry 😀
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wondering if this is possibly some kind of “sign kit”?
also wanted to add you can always assemble your sign first….dig your holes….then raise the sign up into it.
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quote Leigh:wondering if this is possibly some kind of “sign kit”?also wanted to add you can always assemble your sign first….dig your holes….then raise the sign up into it.
I do that too Leigh. Tried all sorts of installation techniques, but that is best, only problem is you need two strong people, and as I am one weak bloke, I always have a drama 😳
Good looking result tho Bryan. Well done
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quote Leigh:wondering if this is possibly some kind of “sign kit”?
I couldn’t find a kit so we cut with a circular saw as much as we could then cleaned it up with a hack saw blade.
quote Leigh:also wanted to add you can always assemble your sign first….dig your holes….then raise the sign up into it.That is exactly how they installed it.
Thanks Shane we did have our share of problems, but it was the first one we did like this. Next one around should go much smoother, I hope.
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i think you have made a very nice sign bryan, nice one mate 😉
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Nice job Bryan, looks really good. I expect we have signs like that over here in the UK its just that I have never knowingly seen one. All the post and panel signs like this I have seen have had a slot cut in each post and the panel is slotted in from the top and locked in place then the finials are just fitted to the top of the posts.
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Thank you all.
I was waiting for someone to comment on the kerning on the “I” (Jill where are you?)
We actually had to patch that in after we delivered the sign. The font used was Impact (thought it was appropriate give the name) which has a straight capital “I”. The customer wanted an “I” with a top an bottom (which I failed to notice on a fax, and the customer failed to notice on the final proof).
Now that I am looking at the picture maybe the “Y” could have been kerned a bit more.
quote martin:All the post and panel signs like this I have seen have had a slot cut in each post and the panel is slotted in from the top and locked in place then the finials are just fitted to the top of the posts.So only the post has a slot and the sign slid down into the post and the finial locks the sign in place?
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nice job …….. the concept is brilliant ……no metal what so ever in the sign , so risk of rust marks appearing in 12 months time
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