[John O'Sullivan]

quote Ewan Chrystal:

Sorry to hijack this but i’m working from home for a few days and i need the number for a 2005 VW LT46 LWB. Don’t suppose you give me the code?

Thanks

hi Ewan, on version 46 2014 it is VOLK 0096 I ALSO HAVE VER 29 and it is VOLK 0066

HOPE THAT HELPS

[John O'Sullivan]

id love to be able to pick and choose but i cant, it takes all sorts of customers to make a living so if they want a one off we just try to price it to make money and fit it in around what ever else is goin on.

[John O'Sullivan]

HI DAVID, for on site work we bought a 3meter folding wall paper pasteing table its quick and easy to open up and is small to store or transport or what about a lenght of kitchen type worktop mounted to the wall with some hinges and two tempoary outer legs when its in use and fold it back against the wall when not in use.

[John O'Sullivan]

Congrats Cheryl, delighted for ye, and welcome to the forum Rosie Ann Marie. 🙂 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

i also have been using ritrama o-range for maybe 4 years i’ve had no issues with it nice to work with and looking at some work done over 3years and it has preformed very well.

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome David 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Welcome Jonathan. 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Great work David thanks for taking the time to show us. :)i love the grossi’s
van and how well a clipart type image can still look so good and effective.

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome lee 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome leesw20 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

The car bay lines need to be in termoplastic to get any sort of life from them and if correctly applied i’d expect them to last 3/5 years as for the logo depending on the design/colours you will probley have to use paint.There are companys that supply termoplastic torch on kits like this. https://www.promain.co.uk/category/thermoplastic-id688

Or maybe you could find Adrian’s saturday morning moonlighting crew.
😀 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Best of luck Ewan 😀 :thumbup2: 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome Derek 🙂

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welcome gary

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welcome darren 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

best of look with your new place 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome boyd 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

mark,ready made kits are the way to go have a look at this company ive used there kits and find them good and a very helpful company to deal with.
http://www.pvluk.com

[John O'Sullivan]

yes ive imported it into signlab and its the same as whats happening to you and i have fooled around with it and cant get any good of it,i did notice it was created on a mac wonder could that have anything to do with it??but i suppose if youve used this design girl before and didnt have the problem it rules that out.

[John O'Sullivan]

Nice job david,why did you deside to use the non air release MDX?? and not use something that your more comfortable with fitting??Anyway it turned out great 🙂 well done

[John O'Sullivan]

Right enough ewan think you might be in trouble there 😀 not only has he gone into sign making but he also creates his own fonts :lol1: and can mount signs without fixings.must look it up on trip adviser if hes doin everything to this standard it might be worth staying there 😮 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

best of luck ewan if you can get travel costs to quote for jobs:o i think you would need to weigh up if its worth while?? before you travel or what about a quote fee that you would remove if you get the job and say that up front??hard one as fuel/time is a huge costs now for quotes.

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Peter Michael Coogan:

Would like some advise on what vinyl is best for flooding the rear windows on the new volkswagon caddy, recently applied one with Ritarama 400 serie silver vinyl but the customer brought it back saying he would like it replaced
There was a few tiny creases in it so I have to do it again what vinyil would you guys recommend cheers
Pete

i have flood coated lots of van windows in ritrama with no problems but if you want to try another brand maybe 700 avery.how long was it done before the creases appeared??

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome jayden. 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

john,this was discussed here not too long ago this might help more so the second link https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … ete#447359 https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … =kongcrete

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Julie,welcome to the forum

[John O'Sullivan]

Best of luck kevin for the future and thanks for what you have added to the forum over the many years. :thumbup2: 😀 john

[John O'Sullivan]

hi john, with the way you have described what its doin it sounds that the carriage where the plotter head runs is bent 😕

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Bronwen,welcome to uksb 🙂

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welcome chris 🙂

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hi shawn and welcome 🙂

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welcome colin 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Jon,now that you,ve got the info you need dont say hello, just maybe say good bye and thanks that would do 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Lewis,i agree with everything martin has said, but the sign on and over the door can you not flood coat them in yellow and apply the text in green no substrate needed?? 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Lewis and welcome 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

i’m with simon on this theres no way you can work out what grip the paint has on the surface under neath so no has to be the answer to this,if they fall/hit somebody your liable,unless you want to supply only and let the client fit with VHB tape.your call but id say no. 😕

[John O'Sullivan]

hi darrell and welcome 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

hi robert and welcome,from ireland 😀 or should i say from a none local scot :lol1: sorry for gate crashing 😀 :lol1:

[John O'Sullivan]

hi nick and welcome 🙂

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welcome mark 🙂

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welcome Elliott 🙂

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welcome Tim 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Top notch as always and all in the middle of expanding your work space :thumbup2: 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Dont do much of this but we use MDP Supplies 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome jason 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

hi badger,welcome to the uksb it will be quite handy having a chef on here so we can trade off sign advice against new recipes/cooking tips 😀 😀 :lol1: j

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Martin:

Best advice I can give you is make yourself a cup of tea or coffee (in fact make a flask). Sit yourself down, get comfortable & phone Edward Mathias.

http://www.edwardmathias.com

You will be on the phone for a considerable length of time but you will come away knowing everything there is to know about plotters & the different media they cut. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

derek must have made that call martin 😮 😮 thats why he’s not been back on to reply :lol1: should we send someone around to top up the flask :lol1: :lol1:

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome Lee 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi John and welcome 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

hi ewan,did you try impact to see can they do it for you?? think you will find it hard to get it other wise a 1991 model is like myself 🙂 getting on a bit 😮 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Robert,just up the road from you in cashel tipperary

[John O'Sullivan]

HI Simon,sorry slightly off topic,do you cut these the exact size of the windows or trim in after just wondered how you stop water/weather getting between the laminate and the contravision or is the laminate wider than the material and seals the edges.??J 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Robert,Welcome to uksb,what material did you use on that wrap and what part of our island are you based?? 🙂 J

[John O'Sullivan]

Welcome Anthony. 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

As Phil said sit down work out your material costs and fitting time and what profit margin you want to add and submit a price from there dont go chase’in someone elses price.

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Steff,welcome to the boards 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

We use a heat gun and then some glue remover,slow boring work 🙁

[John O'Sullivan]

quote josh morris:

wonder what people on here will have to say about this one I did a while back, oh and it passed MOT by a reputable MOT station that does everything by the book

thought it would need a reg plate to pass the mot 😀 :D,as for reputable mot stations do they not all have to work to the same rules/standard :o….. :lol1: :lol1:

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Chris Foster:

Hi there, I have a customer who wants me to wrap his car in the colour in the attachment below. I have been looking through my 3M/Avery/Arlon swatches and can’t find a decent match (might be the light i’m in!). Has anyone any ideas? The nearest I think is the ‘Light Blue CB1510001’ Avery colour but it still looks a little dark?

Thanks

havent a clue about the colour 😮 but it look a nice place for a holiday :lol1: :lol1:

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Martin:

John, couple of options, you won’t need to worry about not getting any updates for windows xp if you keep the computer off the internet.

If you upgrade to windows 7 & get either the pro or ultimate edition you can run something called xp mode which will run most software that previously ran on windows xp.

You could also install something like vmware player which is a virtual computer & then install windows xp on that to run all your old software.

Thanks Martin 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

im in much the same position i have signlab 8.1 and xp and ive been told windows 7 or 8 are ok,i think i will go for w7 as my computer people say it can be trimed in to work very like xp,which would be nice as im slow to take on change 🙁 🙁 , also from whats been said on here about w8 its to be avoided.signlab had an offer to upgrade to 9.1 but i cant remember the cost.

[John O'Sullivan]

hi Zoe and welcome from ireland 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi shane and welcome . 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

well then i suppose the rule of tum would be if your mezz floor is higher than your door height your sorted 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Denise,you should not need to learn a new accounts package any accountant firm that cant use quickbooks should be avoided its like me sending you an eps or ai you have to deal with it, so your accountant should be able to do the same for different accounts packages,that small business you have with 10 sales a month 250£ a year should be loads 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

john,what do you meam by it pulls the media off the rear rollers??what does it say on the screen when it stops??sounds like the no media sensor at the rear is been exposed.are you unrolling enough media for the job or is the machine trying to pull from the roll?

[John O'Sullivan]

Welcome Venan 🙂

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Welcome to the forum Ali 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Frank Ronan:

Cheers guys home is Kerry John. How about yourself

Hi Frank,im in cashel co tipperary,years back i was involved in the road marking and cats eye industry, spent a lot of time in co kerry,maybe 10 years,Everywhere down there from Listowel to Cahersiveen/Dingle.Super friendly and sound people.Well thats when yer not kicking the S*ite out of us at football 😮 😀 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

i dont think that you would be liable for anything by fitting but if your client is not the onwer of the property he cant apply for permission to do anything, he does not own it,also on fitting anything to a rental property the owner needs to agree to the work/changes to his property.get legal advice before you do any more :)also if there on public property your client cant have any insurance for them.

[John O'Sullivan]

David,thats great news to here someone is busy and expanding,hope the trans to up stairs goes smooth 😀 J

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome frank, 😀 wheres home in ireland? 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome chris 🙂

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Welcome Aaron 🙂

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quote josh morris:

quote Kevin Flowers:

Products on the lens or light source that reduce the light’s intensity or change its colour are now a reason for failure

so what if they do not reduce the light intensity or change the lights colour? i have fly eyes tint on my head lights, do any of you know what fly eyes actually is? it does not reduce my light output whatsoever and does not change the colour of my lights[/quote

come on josh if you put fly eyes on the lamps it has to reduce reduce light output youre covering part of the lamp maybe not to mot failure level but it is reduced,you are sold on this subject and idea and making a few quid from it fair enough but you thinking on the concept is wrong and un- supported.sorry 🙁 🙁

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome josh 🙂

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welcome matt 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

im probley living in the wrong country 🙄 but is tinting car lights that big a business that you would offer these services that are bordering on legal/illegal like has been said some mot centers will pass it some wont so what do you do with the ones that fail?give them a refund :o?? a well its keeping those VOSA boys busy 😀 :lol1:

[John O'Sullivan]

[quote="Neil Davey"]Still in shock now, Wales didn’t turn up and there was no passion.

To be fair i think your spot on there Neil have to agree it was more down to ye not turning up than we been great and the score in the end was just because ye didnt even play to the end,towel was in early im afraid. 😉

[John O'Sullivan]

quote DavidRogers:

quote Chris Wool:

Yes that can be a pain like you we have a selection of computer s that do different things.
We created a directory of all the fonts from all the machine s . Then loaded that to the computer s that would need them all.
Have to update it now and again as you may add a font for one job here and there.

Ditto. Central font store and install on all the machines…fool proof.

For the fools please 🙂 how do you create a central font store that you can move about and install on other machines 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Chris Wool:

tried but did not work sorry

And to be fair chris he said a flip flop not a safety boot!! 😀 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

[quote="Kevin Flowers"

I just feel that after all these years its a shame that RH has such a cavalier attitude to keeping loyal customers on board

i think its great kev that your moving on and finding new suppliers and probley better prices with new companys that are keen to do business.

if anybody from RH looks on here think its time ye woke up and smell the coffee if ye cant look after the good long term customers god help the new ones or do ye think yer above all that!!!! 🙄

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Hugh, and welcome from a semi old timer 😕 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Simply ask them do they want to continue doing business as ye have been for the last 8 years,then tell them to sort out there rising prices and stock levels instead of hounding there good customers (:) Loyality has to be a two way street.

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome Nicki 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Hi Gill and welcome 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

The valleys are silent 🙂 and still in shock 🙂 and mr gatland is wandering around asking what happened :drink4: 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

i think were good enough yes but it was never as important to show up with the right game plan and in the right frame of mind,gatland will know the mind set of a lot of our players and is already racheting up the pressure in the press a lot of it directed at brian od.roll on saturday 😀 wel stop the singing 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

Super work as always david :thumbup2: 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

Have to say nice touch coming on and saying thanks and showing us the work that the help has got you to here and the standard your working to.some really nice work there well done.j 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome norbert, 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

quote Hugh Fraser:

Hi Grahamn and John
am I missing a link for the towable monkey tower?

Hugh,there isn’t a link just google (monkey tower access platform)that will get it. looks a really handy peice of kit. 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome john 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome Bernie 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

welcome brian 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

mdp supplies sell them at about £25 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

hi kimmy,welcome to the boards.lovely part of the world you live in 🙂 i worked for a while in derbyshire (bakewell) loved all that area up around there.as they say up around there"see you in a bit" 😀 😀

[John O'Sullivan]

hi kimmy,looking at photo one the blade holder looks to be missing the top ajustment screw also the clamp to hold the holder in place is below where it should be(maybe this was just for your photo) also it could be a smart blade holder from edwardmathias.com go on there site and have a look loads of info on there about plotter blades and they will be able to get you sorted. 🙂 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

quote NeilRoss:

Chris, thanks for that, but Rob’s link on that page won’t permit me access 😕

Rob: seems a bit bizarre that I have permission to use the toolbar, but not to download it?

hi neil,sorry this is not a hijack but im in the same position,i cant get it either maybe someone can advise does my membership level
not allow me access 🙂

[John O'Sullivan]

hi andy and welcome to the boards 😀