Nigel Pugh
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Alan,
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Nigel
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Soz but it’s just those pink sunglasses that Jilll’s wearing……..just reminds me of one of the girls out of the movie Grease………yep I’m old enough to remember it.
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Yeh and Jill can already provide the baps 😀
Ok lynch mob time 🙁
Nigel
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Alan,
No reason to use superweed unless it’s a large piece of work that needs weeding and you are on your own and new to doing it.
If you need a little telephone tutiton / support then I will be happy to help.
Nigel
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The control panel is different on the Lynx compared to your Ultra Peter.
Alan you should have the blade showing no more than 1 or 2mm out of the blade holder. Also the minimum pressure on that machine is around 75gms so if you are using a new blade then you use the minimum pressure setting.
Have you printed the manual off yet???
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Alan,
The manual for the software should be on one of the disks as a pdf file, so you can either view on screen or print the whole lot out.
Same goes for all the fonts within the software.
Nigel
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Rachel,
Are the flowers all cut vinyl, if so then that is one very nice job.
Nigel
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Tim,
Variatex or something similar, certainly the grooved bit were the plastic letters push onto.
Nigel
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Happy Birthday Mr. Lambie, your two months older than me…………….so why do you look 15 years younger (hot)
Nigel
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White lines don’t do it………………..but two yellow ones will
(old 80’s song from Grandmaster Flash)Highway to Hell / Road to Hell.
Yep definately stuck in the song theme mode………I’ll have a few jars tonight then come back.
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Try this Adrian
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I’ll expect a call after 8pm then shall I 😀
Don’t worry I’ll also have a pint for you.
Nigel
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Very busy mate and glad for it, you sound if you may need to get extra equipment in mate 😀
Couple of hours to go and then a few pints I think.
Nigel
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Hello Darren,
Yep still here, how are things for you, busy?
Nigel
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Dan,
Got a e-mail address, may have the answer for you.
Nigel
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Good advice given there by Darren.
Dan we provide profiles F.O.C. for any of our print medias (you can actually download them straight to your own pc).
Clear film not a problem, but like Darren has said we would need to know what rip you are using at the moment, then we could send you a sample to try.
Nigel
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Have a look at the laserproi.com website, different make of lasers used but at least it should give you some idea.
Dare say Rodney Gold may post to this thread, if he does then you will enough idea’s to last a lifetime.
Nigel
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That is blooming toptastic.
Fancy doing my living room next
Nigel
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Brian,
Sorted now thanks.
Gareth yep I agree, time to let things be.
Nigel
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Peter,
Politics & Religion i do wholeheartedly agree with you, as for conscription, well I would not have minded having to do it, after all I did grow up when a clip round the ear was a good thing to have just to keep you on the straight and narrow, not like asbo’s they give out like sweets today.
Scozzie, sorry mucka but yes we did invade countries but a fair few actually benefited from English rule, you know education, employment, law & order.
No sooner we gave them sovereignty back and most at there own request, what happens, they take three steps back into the dark ages and then blame us for everything.
You know in One way I wish I was not English because of all the BS that gets thrown at us, then at the same time it just makes me more patriotic than ever before and even more angry.
Nigel
That’s just my own ranting of course, but if anyone would like to put up a poll I reckon I would not be on my own.
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Peter,
I always read your post’s and must say they are either funny or informative.
But I would rather have a eternal life than a finite a**hole trying to bomb & killing innocent people.
Nigel
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English and proud of it, racist yes I am and thats only because I’m English and living in my own country.
Who’s to blame, as said by many politics and religion, and quite correct too.
Am I sick and tired off all the PC brigade and all racist crap, well yes I am.
I think as a nation we have been pushed too far now, time to take the velvet glove off.
Simon, just as you I would like to say more but this is not the place, all I can say (and I’m not nor want to be a member) is that the BNP must have had a hell of a lot of applications today.
Nigel
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quote :We have one supplier who is quite often out of stock of items and so they get placed on back order. When you phone up a week later to find out if the stock is in yet, they say ‘yes, it’s been in a few days’ and ask us what we need again. Then about a month down the line, they ask us if we still need the first order.
But don’t you find that with all suppliers, its whether they keep you informed. If they telephone you and say they are having a problem then you can cope with that.
Brian
Brian, you said if suppliers ring to say that they have a problem with your order then your happy because at least you know. Ok but why in your previous paragraph why do you say you ring your one supplier to see if the stock has arrived, haven’t you contradicted yourself there, shouldn’t they be ringing you.
Nigel
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Paulo,
The manufacturers state cold peel, but in all honesty through experience people will do it there own way.
Cold peel is just to allow the adhesive to set hard and not still be liquefied.
Nigel
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Gareth,
Thanks for the reply, blimey there isn’t anything I can really say to make what you wrote seem any better than bad.
From our records it does seem that you last traded with us over five years ago, and things do move on and even may I say can get better / improved.
I do understand your grievance and why you would never consider using us for anything ever again.I dare say that many of us on here have suffered at the hands of suppliers at some stage, even me, and did not get the service we would have expected to receive.
All I can do Gareth is apologise on behalf of our company for failing you, if ever you have any questions or queries please feel free to contact me.
Nigel
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Gareth,
No supplier likes to be seen in a bad light, but I would be very surprised if anyone from here would have told you to go away in such colourful language.
If you have a spare minute then I would be more than happy for you to call and let me know where we went wrong.
Nigel
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Iain,
Didn’t mean for it to seem like I thought it was linked with today, just a observation.
One thing though, feelings probably will be running high in Bradford now because of what happened today.
Just for the record, I’m right behind what Marcella and Simon has said and even more so what you have not said Simon.
Nigel
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Isn’t today the anniversary (for want of a better word) of the race riots in Bradford 2001.
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I’m glad we won it just to get one over the French, just one thing that spoils it all though.
That six letter name at the beginning of ****** Olympics 2012.
Just hope it’s a better success than that damm dome they built in ****** (hot)
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Gotta go for Peter Criss, the best skin tormentor Kiss ever had.
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Peter I know a sign comp that does a lot of this sort of thing, e-mither your phone number and I will reply with their number.
Nigel
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Question for Rodney,
Have you had any experience on the Stellermark I laser’s from GCC?
Nigel
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Paulo,
150 – 155 Degrees, 15 secs application at a medium pressure, for tricky applications it is better to extend application time than raise the temperature (as long as the garment can withstand a longer application time).
Nigel
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(:) What about us suppliers Mr.L ?
Do we not count in the 3000
Right no breezers at next years Sign UK 😛
Nigel
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Joe,
Couldn’t you drop a wire frame behind the letters, screw the frame to the wall and then hang the letters off the frame.
If it sounds stupid then it’s cus I am and I’m not a signmaker 😳
Nigel
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Danny,
No probs, should be with you tomorrow.
Nigel
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Danny,
Can’t believe you have received the paper in that condition, if you want I will arrange for a replacement to be sent out today for tomorrow.
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Hello D,
Just checked your post, actually we do a CP160 non adhesive paper that will suit your Versacamm.
Lynn was correct we do supply the type of material you are after, I have spoken to our sales dept. and so if you want to call in again they will now know exactly what you are after.
Nigel
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James,
Good news, the Roland blades that we supply do fit our blade holders, the downside I do not know if the diameter of the blade holder would suit your Roland.
As for prices sorry but you will have to call our sales office, don’t think I should be posting prices.
Nigel
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James,
Let me know what blades you purchased and I can check them against the blade holders that we do stock.
Nigel
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Hugh, as it says above my avatar.
I’m sure someone reading this thread may give you a little more info about what I do.
Like I said very nice job you did.
Nigel
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Could have done without the digital print of the motor in front 😀 but I like the shopfront.
Not a lot of room to work with but nicely done and it still allows for the inside window space to be used without obstruction.
Anyways thats a non signmakers view of course 😳
Nigel
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LJ no probs on the file glad I could help, btw did you know C.J. had a large tiger print for her birthday 😀
To be honest the Mutoh cutter with Epos is by far the best system I have seen in the last 12 to 18 months.
I know there has been a newer version of Opus released over the same time period but for me the Epos system so far has it nailed.
LJ you know very well that I could mention several cutters over 1220mm width but what would happen……………[b]admin edit
Nigel
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L.J. will correct me if I’m wrong but beware by the Mutoh SC1400 tag as it only has a cut width of 1200mm. (Good machine though)
As Peter says most vinyl manufacturers now only produce main line vinyls upto 1220mm, some colours you may still get in 1525mm.
Most cutter/plotters now supplied in their largest format are between 1200mm, 1320mm and 1500mm.
Nigel
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Baship, if you call our sales office and request a sample to try, that’s the best thing I can suggest.
Nigel
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Charity begins at home, so lets get our own peeps off the street and looked after before we go sending money over to countries who’s leaders couldn’t give a t*ss about the UK but are more than happy to pay us lipservice.
Sorry to seem like a complete wan*er but how much more do you have to see the UK been used as the toilet for every other countries unwanted before you decide to say something (hot)
You show me a nation in trouble and you will find a dictator at the helm, more interested in lining their own pockets.
Just my own humble opinion, but sorry to say I feel more& more like the minority each day in my own country.
Nigel
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UKSB is a good starting point. (>)
Leave your job, buy the kit for signmaking and then ask the question how to go about doing signs on UKSB. (?)
Get a zillion answers from all you good folk, practically a free degree in theory for nothing 😀 Even a helping hand from those who may work near to you.
Wealth can only be measured by the amount of friends / people who will help you out when you really need them.
Nigel
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20 mtr………..you’re lucky try 30 mtr 😀
You would never think it could weigh so heavy either 20 or 30 mtr.
Must be attracted to the earth’s core 😛
Nigel
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Paul,
you could at least put the good file on here so we can what it was we all tried but failed to open. 🙂
Nigel
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Same here in Flexi
Nigel
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Requested a catalogue.
Thanks Ali
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Read today that all the call centres that went over to India etc are now recruiting Brits to go and work over there.
Yearly wage upto £4000 which equates to £40,000 over there.
Nigel
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Good luck to you, from what you have posted I’m certain you will be a success. And because of your background if you ever have to remove dodgy graphics from a vehicle that then would require a paint job then bob’s ya uncle, rita’s ya aunty.
Nigel
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Well Rob,
Remember when you gave the dosh away for the first one to spot you doing a days work………….in England to boot.
Who do you think was trying to over take you. 😀
Nigel
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Hi Lynn,
Yes you are right, some backing sheets are siliconised for “easy weeding” and whichever application tape is used may prove a problem for the application tape to get a good grip on the vinyl. (i was going to say some more here but wasn’t too sure if the invisible mods would have got me)
By the way isn’t that a big tiger print behind you, I seem to remember at sign uk that it was C.J’s birthday……………………….. 😀
Nigel
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If you are going to advertise on trailers then the best place would on the back dooors of the geezer who travels down the middle lane from pick up to drop of.
You know who you are ’cause my middle finger is worn out (:)
Nigel
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😳 Soz just re-read the thread, so you reckon the white vinyl’s backing paper has a stronger adhesion to the vinyl thus the tape cannot pull the vinyl away.
Yes ok not a signmaker probably never will be ……………I’ll shut up now.
😳 😳 Nigel 😳 😳
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[quote="surftees"]
It must be the different backing paper used for white vinyl.Sorry but I’m a little confused, what has the backing paper on vinyl got to do with putting application tape onto vinyl…… they are opposite sides?
Not out to ridicule anyone but if I’m wrong (which is normally the case) please tell me different.
Nigel
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Lee just mention the rising cost of oil, therefore your vinyl costs have gone up and so each coach will have to be £510 each, small increase to your customer per coach and you have covered the cost of having to do the epaulets again. 😀
Nigel
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Got 91 and that will do.
Must admit though I don’t have a problem with that Frog, must be I have a higher pain threshold than most
Nige
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quote Dewi:Blimey! 😮 It’s Lee Harris! Not seen you in ages mate! How’s that daughter of yours, CJ? Wasn’t it her birthday recently? You could have got her a huge tiger print while you were at SignUK you know, would have made a great gift!
:lol1: Never tires, never gets old :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Nige
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Marek, I just lost but not on deuces, killed by the river, then again 42nd out of 400 ain’t too bad.
Nige
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Blimey the bait had hardly touched the water an what do you know
Bite first time 😛
Dewi some defending to do mucka 😉
Nige
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Hey SAR I can still see hair on ya bonce, so your only a semi. 😀
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Eddie, click on our advert (Grafityp) and submit a request form giving your e-mail address and I will then send the file we have.
Unfortunately though I will not be able to do this until Monday morning, as it’s FA Cup day and the pubs are open.
Jobe
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What a great feeling that must be.
Good luck to you both and success in the future.
Jobe
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Just got a virtual slap across the face and I’m apparently virtually barred from the pub.
Only because I asked for a slow screw against the wall 😀
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L.J. I will check the L32P profile for you along with the other one your after.
Don’t bother e-mailing Joe this week as he is away on holiday, will be back next week.
Jobe
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L.J. whoever supplied the media should be able to give the profiles for it, barring that pm me, might have a profile to suit.
Jobe
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Ok fair enough, brick wall & face, walked straight into that one 😳
Jobe
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quote Robert Lambie:jobe… the world has ended mate… this is heaven 😉 (angel)
Oh yeh then why can I still see yours and Mr. Normingtons avatars 😀
No way can that be heaven 😀 😀 😀
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Hang on Rob what’s that you posted?
😀 Is it a Tiger Print 😀Didn’t C.J. have one just like that for her birthday from Lee Harris 😀
Sorry Lee but blackmail is blackmail 😛
Jobe
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My opinion Pete an this is purely to give the admin edit enforcers summat to do is………………
If you want to spend £xxx or £xxxx or £xxxxx then fine, I’d rather someone spend £xxxxx (plus vat, sorry Mr. Brown) than £xxx. but at the end of the day if your signage needs are say in-house then why spend £xxxxx when you can spend £xxx to do the same work.
I agree that the sign industry is been cheapened because of how easy it is for someone to start out new and to buy the kit and start producing signage whatever the quality.
From suppliers to signmakers we all eat from the same table, so we all end up been affected.
(re-read 10x so if any characters or scenes seem familiar then it’s purely coincidental)
Jobe
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😮 I give up, anyways wasn’t the world ending at midnight tonight 😀
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Rob must admit from your post what you said was spot on, ( I forgot to mention the fact cus I blew a fuse).
But very correct with earlier machines you could drop a house on them and still they would keep on churning the work out, must have been built by Volvo.And again rightly so as in most things the older the kit is the more it costs to replace, i.e. main board or power supply, just because nowadays most of the new machine parts are produced in the far east, at the same time for older machines the parts available are now just what is left in stock for any machine, if it ain’t available then the machine is no better than a doorstop.
I suppose you just can’t please everyone 😀
Jobe
Goddamn Spellchecker 👿
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(hot) I can feel admin edit coming on but here goes.
Say 20 to 25 years ago to buy a vinyl cutter with software that ran through dos and had no more than 15 to 25 fonts included would have cost best part of £20,000.
And now cus you can pick various vinyl cutters / hobby machines for less than £1,000 does that make them any less of a machine compared to twenty plus years ago……….well no it does not.
Go like for like as in a TV, Microwave or even a dvd player that you can pick one up now for around £30 – 40 brand new, far cheaper than your Beta or VHS video but far superior in the quality of recording or viewing.
I would like to go further but because I am a supplier/visitor the last thing I want to do is seem biased or promoting one product above another, hence no brand names have been mentioned.
Jobe
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(hot) S***e just 53 mins left, ok I’d like to thank the producer and all my fans for this award blah blah blah.
Please don’t bother to reply as you should be busy getting to kiss ya A**E goodbye 👿
Oh by the way Pete,just what is going to happen tonight, and has that got to do with I have got hiccups for the first time since Lee Harris had a haircut. 😀
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Dewi I reckon you can keep that line going for ages mate, everytime I read it I have to chuckle.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀Jobe
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Hi all,
The software is OEM version Flexisign known as SignPal Apprentice, Expert, Master & Pro, the only difference between SignPal & Flexisign is that SignPal only contains drivers for the SignPal range of cutter/plotters, and so it is cheaper than it’s Flexi equivalent.
Hope that clears up any confusion.
Jobe
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There There Lee, now that didn’t hurt did it, now I know where my hair has gone (as in Rob’s photo) 😀
Jobe
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😳 Ahem yes well ok considering that is one of the first pictures out of a few hundred more that your likely to show Rob I reckon things can only get worse.
Posted without the aid of spell checker
Nige
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Hi Lynn,
What’s that behind you 😀 Is it a tiger print 😀
Jobe
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Hello John,
We got Sky + last year and part of the contract was that we had the box connected to the phone line 24/7 as to receive updates / new channels etc just like Dewi mentioned.
But just like you have mentioned I have sometimes switched channels and noticed that the info box at the bottom of the screen that shows what your are watching an the start an finish time of that show sometimes is a hour behind and displays the program what was shown a hour earlier even though you are watching the program you wanted to see……..hope that makes sense.
I think it is just another conspiracy like Rob’s poll on spellchecker, ‘cus I use it everytime now since the poll.
Jobe
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I don’t live to far away from Atherstone, any chance of a road name would like to go an have a gander at the weekend.
Jobe
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[quote="Carrie"]
Don’t forget your piccies 😉
Warning Avatar Enforcer at work 😀
Jobe
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I got a price for just doing the roof on a new mini and that was £150 to £200, so for a full wrap on a Smart Car would have to be anything from £800 – £1200.
Jobe
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😳 Thanks Deb I will be talking you about this later, my excuse is that I had met Dewi earlier 😀
Great to see that you have made use of the Tiger print Peter, I forgot to thank B&P who actually gave me the job file on Tuesday, gotta say that print didn’t half attract a helluva lot of attention and I lost count how many we where asked to print off so peeps could take them home.
There was one geezer who blagged one by saying it was for his daughter’s birthday can you believe that…….oh hang on soz that was Lee Harris and I’m glad it made CJ happy. Dewi and Big G great to finally meet you both, you make a good comedy team with Big G been the smooth suave type and Dewi, well a total nut job.
Also Nic nice to have found you propping the bar up, glad to have met you, also John Childs who is a man mountain glad you was sitting down John when we met.
Finally nice to have met wee little Rob, just has funny as anyone else I’d met during the show but not quite up-to Dewi’s standard as a nutter.
Happy days and fantastic to have met so many genuinely nice peeps, shame that some could not make it 🙁
Jobe
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I have to agree with Nigel especially after seeing the pictures of the last wrap on the sports car…oh and Dewi lent a hand / made the tea.
If you have had a long time fitting graphics then you are half way there to knowing how to vehicle wrap, because at the Sign UK show you did not get to see how the harder parts are done is simple.
Why show the way to do the hardest parts of wrapping when you are advertising training courses to do this?……….It’s the same as taking your van to have the brakes done only to find out the next day that Joe Bloggs repair center has gone and bought a cutter and is offering to vinyl vans up just because he has seen it done and it seems easy, forget the recesses or corners just lay it on the flat panels.
Just check out Rob’s demos on various wraps and you will see just how difficult it can be even for the most experienced fitter.
P.S. Dewi only joking….but you did miss the ashtray.
Jobe
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Don’t fall for it Dewi it contains a subliminal message and so after you’ve voted you will spellchecker for every post after.
Anyways time to fly see you Wednesday.
“must use spellchecker” 😮
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Rob of course you can have a beer, but because you belong to UKSB then I will have to have the first swig as all us suppliers have to knock 10% off for UKSB members. 😀
Notice on my previous post I put “understand” instead of “underhand”, cannot believe it, ever since the poll on spellchecker I have used it everytime (so the poll must be a subliminal message), what I’m trying to say is that it can weed out the spelling mistakes but it has no way of weeding out us thickos. 🙄
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Rob didn’t want to mention the booze………you might have thought it was understand advertising and then given me the dreaded admin edit
As for girls & booze yep same this year, no breezers though but a nice line in Becks as tested by yours truly earlier.
If all goes as planned there should be a mini wrapped each day, but that’s on the opposite side of the stand from the bar so thats me sorted.
Jobe
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Would be nice to know if anyone here has actually done any of these and if they tried to persuade the customer to go for a different name/sign.
Good site though Paul.
Jobe
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Just weighed a 50ml cartridge and it comes out at 75 grams so if the grey matter is correct then a 600ml should be equal to about 900gms or there about.
Hope this helps
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[quote="pshaw"]Most vinyl suppliers have published price lists with quantity breaks. I buy the majority of my vinyl from one supplier and have a simple agreement with them to pay the best list price regardless of quantity ordered. Thus no further haggling, they get most of my turnover and I get a consistent good price for an excellent quality of vinyl I am comfortable with.
I would say that sums it up from a supplier point of view.
Jobe
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BT are giving everything but the kitchen sink away at the moment, for the whole of this year I have got free phonecalls direct from PC to mobile or landline via their service “click 2 call “.
Even got the headset an mike for free along with the full kit to hook my PS2 to the web for online gaming.
About time these companies started to give rather than take and for BT to do it is even more amazing.
Yep one happy bunny so far. 😎
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Funny that as my BT line is to be upgraded from 512 to 2 Meg totally free,
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Carrie,
Just suprised you never sent the heavies round to get me to put my avatar up earlier.On seeing recently peeps posting new avatars like Dewi n yourself makes me wonder if I will need to post a new one at the end of the month………………..considering I already shave my head, what will I need to shave for my next pic…………….
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Johnboy,
You have not comprised me at all, it’s just that I am a supplier / visitor that I cannot promote what I do or any products openly on the boards.
What I will offer though is whatever knowledge I have totally unbiased to give you the answers or part way and hope other members can fill in any gaps.
After all the UKSB is not just another forum but is THE FORUM.
So fire away with any questions 😀
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Hello Johnboy,
Well you are in the best place for all the answers you need, probably a good few wisecracks aswell from Dewi, Carrie & Mr.Lambie if he can leave the breezers alone for a minute.
As a supplier/visitor it is hard for me to answer any questions you have unless they are specific, (house rules), but if you do go to the Sign UK show then you will get all the answers you need unfortunately along with plenty off B S.
Fire away with any questions, if I cannot answer then I’m sure someone else here on this wonderful site managed by Mr.Lambie, (moderators) Dewi n Carrie will be able to.
😀 If that don’t get me three extra cards at Christmas then I don’t know what will……….oh sorry and Vectorwise…….haha four extra cards now. 😀
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Bit of a open question that Johnboy,
Inkjet……pigmented or dye based inks
laser printers…..again need to know what your after as the end product.Let me know what answers you need and I will try to give you the answers.
Jobe
