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I only get the round ones 🙁 but if i do get square ones i’ll send them to you

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Nice one Nobby fingers X

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Hi Brian

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Hi Chris

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Says you

“:oops: I did it again”

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Rod you’ll be told off for pulling a Train into EQ 😆

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Dont forget to unlock the toolbar as well, and u can resze it in the too.

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Ahh the Old Badger song, i woundered when that would serface here, i didn’t have the guts to post it 😆

but i do have a few variations of it 😉

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Amari quoted me a cheaper price on teh rynabond than Europints Alucolour. and it is next day deliveray where Europoint is 2 working days.

Saying that the alucolour is very good, trying the Rynabond this week.

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Dewi look on the cartoon files site under Simpsons you’ll see the one:)

i do have a naked homer on a tie which is a timeless clasic

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I have a large Bart and my naked Homer decorating my office 🙂

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Car Mechanic, but i did a 4yr apprentiship as a CNC Machinist/Mechanical Engineering.

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Thanks Guys fot all the info

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sorry didn’t see the logo at the bottom , i’ll shut the door.

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If you have a picture of it i’d use Vectorwise, great service and very cost affective. next day delivery too (and u don’t need premises 😀 )

You will find the link on the front page

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Thats what i thought Kev. I know a lot of Helmets are airbrushed.

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Or where the thread is 🙄

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Yep sorry sorted now

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Thanks for the Heads Up Big G

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Got to admit when i was a wee lad ( well 2 months ago ) i was only applying wet, then i had a few days work up in scotland with McRod who had a quick refresher with me applying dry. (it’s amazing how much you forget after your first weeks tuition). Anyway after he pushed away my fears of applying dry and reminded me on how vinyl reacts in general , i can now say that 90% of my work is now applied dry.

I learnt that if you take your time (it’s not a race) and think things through it normaly turns out great.
When i finsih my van i’ll post pics and i have a couple of others to post too. All done dry, now to the old hands here probably not a lot to it, but with a newbie like me who only ever applied dry, well i like it 😀

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Np M8 Hope it gets sorted ok , and spoil Mrs L she deserves it 🙄

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Have agreat time 2night i hopefully will (drink1)

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Sounds liek fals advertising to me, i hear the sound of more money coming off your purchase or a free upgrade when they cant deliver what they have promised 😉

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Martin funny you should say but in June i’m best man at my mates wedding in Wales 😛 he’s English and she’s welsh , and i have been instructed by her that any Welsh jokes in the speach would not go down well at all ( as if i would)

Now i am on the look out for

1. Inflatable Blow up sheep
2 Braces with sheep on them
3 a longbow ( something to do with a old english law which alows you to shoot a welsh man on a certain sunday in a certain church. that is still leagal)
4 any realy good welsh jokes that would go well at a wedding
5 anything else that would realy wind her up 😛

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Impact is the way top go , and as the others have said you just can’t do without it. I’m not sure but Brian was doing a bundle deal with teh vehicle libary and the graphics to go disks as well, 2 packages worth their weight in gold

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Happy Bday m8y (drink1)

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Cheers Guys

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Jill you wasn’t looking at the trestles were you 😉

I was looking for some on friday, and a company near me can get hold of a similar system for around £600 quid.
These ones are like 2 ladders held together witha scissor system, u pull them apart then put the walkway on any of the rungs for the hight you need. Looked very compact, maybee in a few months once funds let me 😥

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HEHE Nobby

ohh top bannana was a saying we used to use when i was a kid, for some strange reason it poped into my mind when u replied for my post, dunno why but my god what a big bunch you have 😮

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Thanks Nobby thats top bannana 😀

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Welcome to the family Dex 🙂

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Paul it would be handy if you could post the tech sheets pls

Paul

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how much does she charge to fit at an hourly rate 😆

Good to see them so eager at that age, my 10 yr old son likes to help me weed, and me daughter makes the coffee 😀

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Thanks Nobby

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Welcome Dave

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Welcome to the site Ray

wow how diverse can you get, and yes you have definatly come to the right place there are loads of realy helpfull talented ppl on here that bend overbackwards to help.
On accessing the group you need to join but tbh it is well worth the small outlay on teh vast knowledge and help that you will aquire.

Now and expresso machine next to my plotter sounds a great idea
(drink1)

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Thanks Guys I will look into this on Monday

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Sorry guys need to bump this as i can’t find this font, and i dont want to buy it just for this one job if i can help it.

So if anyone does have it and they can help by doing the text and converting to curves for me i woudl be gratefull.

My vectoring skills are err worse than useless 🙁

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John i saw the machine and me and Phill got caught up in a 45 minute ( yes 45 Minute) sales pitch on the agency.

Yes it looks great , easy to use and seem’d it could be profitable……..

If you sold quite a few a week and was prepared to by tied up to a 3 year contract. 🙄

The machine was something like 35 quid a week and the stamps were starting from around 8 quid each blank. the mark up was good but I think that sort of thing is ideal for a shop. and when he tried to tie my m8 phill up to a 3 yr deal there and then “As we dont have a agent in your area” We ran a mile.

But i did get a free stamp out of it 🙂

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Thanks Richard, how did you do the search as i did it but it didn’t come up with that version

Thanks again

Just a side note i just edited this 😆

i dont have this either does anyone that does have it mind creating the Words for me and converting to curves for signlab for me.

Thanks in advance

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Marty that is spot on thanks m8y

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Cheers Jonny

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Yep I agree mainly pretty digi printers, ok if your in teh market at this time for one but otherwise not a great deal. I only managed to blag 2 free squeegees too.

And meeting some of the other guys was great. Rob i’m sure after his lonely stay at his £200 a night with no breakie hotel will post them up tomorrow 🙄

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Thanks Guys

Thats been a great help and put my mind at ease

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Nigel i did try and get the customer to use Alucolour ( Europoints version , trie dit b4 and it is very good) but he didn’t want to go to the extra expense 🙁 I did tell him all the pro’s but he wanted Foam …..in my view when they are spending that much on a sign a few extra quid for a longer lasting sign makes more sence.

but as they say teh customer is always wrong . sorry i meant right

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Cheers Rob sounds like a great idea, but in all honesty do u think it would warent a back board? I’d go with the experiance of u guys here and not me beinga bit OTT. Cherwell recon i don’t but then again they don’t fit the signs.

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Chris that is who i was going to use, but looking at their prices and at Robs demo i’m going to take the plunge and order the materials in and make it myself.

But as it’s going on a corogated metal wall with roughly 6″ between each high spot on the metal should i use exterior ply backboard or not worry (?)

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YEs Rob it was a nice supprise, great meeting you guys too.

Rod unfortunatly can’t make it 🙁

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I used andrew last week, absolutly brilliant 🙂

but i had to get this one done for the artwork first thing in teh morning so i didn’t have the time to get him to do it.

Thanks again and now it’s time to go to bed

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Thanks Nigel thats is so cool, saved me hrs of work , i realy need to learn how to do that properley, time to look in teh demo forum again

And i will do John

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It’s no tthe time Nik it’s mor ethe fact that i’m hopeless at tiding up 🙁

it’s something i have to learn i know. But even when i trace it with corel 10 it comes out so bad. I only have a realy small logo of it and my scanner isn’t that good, i need to buy a decent one next month.

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John Buy squeegees (?) BUY (?)

They should be throwing them at us so in the future we use their brands, I’ve had my misses hoard all the tescos bags for months just to stock up on squeegees 😛

Paul “The bag man” Goodwin

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Also load a free program called pop up stopper

it stops 95% of pop ups, downside is if you open a link that needs another window u have to turn it off quickly, but then u just restart it.

http://www.panicware.com

but u def need to scan for adware, the program Rob uses is good but i find this one much beter

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=home

again it’s a free program

Paul

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Ohh another Smoker Dewi, we an be outcasts together 😮

2pm sounds good to me, and i’ll bring a bag of rotten veg to throw at Steve. any preferance on tomatoes or cabbage?

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hehe just read page 3 🙂 Europoint stand is cool by me

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Well why don’t we meet by steves stand at 2pm ??

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I’m going weds as well

Just look for the scruffy git with a constant scowl that’l be me 😆

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That looks realy cool.

How long did it take you and did you encounter any serious problems?

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Dewi

Purchase the vehicle outline and Ready to go Graphics disks, well worth it and they are excelent. Brian and Co have done a supurb job.

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Looks realy good Dewi, and yes did u get a free curry?

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Hi Richie my wifes friend at work her husband runs his own barcode buisness.
his details are

Mark Hewitt

QTT
Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire
LU7 9BG
Tel: 01296 662162
He’s on holiday today and will be back for monday, mention that u got the details from Bev a colleague of Hazel’s ( his wife) at Klargester

Hope this is of some help

Paul

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Thanks John that is great information.

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Thanks Richie, yep thats def the size of van i’m after, i think the combo is a little smaller so price for price the Belingo def wins out

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I couldn’t reply to this earlier as i was away over the weekend.
On the note of the Corsa thread, i spoke to Brian via the phone and he helped me out with this one, i then went on to purchase graphics 2 go & the vehicle outlines disks, at the same time.

Best purchase i think i have made on vector software and i have bought some duff ones from pc world b4 🙁 , Thanks Brian your a top bloke.

I’d suggest any one starting out to by this great package as there is soo much on there that most of what you need you will be able to find. and within 1 or 2 jobs it’s paid for it’s self.

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Cheers Nobby

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I dont think i explained this one too well 🙂

he’s after 2 pictures to go on his A board of a car and Bike, doesn’t mater what model they are. something cheap and chearful realy and easy to cut.

on the impact graphics 2 go disk there is one of a rear end of a mk 3 escort with spoiler, something like that but a side on view or front angled view.

I’ll get my coat and shut the door on the way out

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Hope Jodie gets better real real quick mate

cracking looking kid as Big G said must take after her mum 😆

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Roland Camm1 24″

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Hi Rob just slightly off topic

It was great meeting you at last and thanks for your help and time out that you took with us it was great watching a pro at work (Not that i’m saying McRod isn’t a pro … ohh i’ll get me coat)

I learnt so much this week and Apllying dry isn’t as much of a nightmare anymore, and i think i have built up my confidance, it’s amazing how many little things i forgot last time i was up.

Anyway speak soon

Mort

p.s whrers me plaque?? that router is great

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Hio andrew my e-mail is

valesigns@ntlworld.com

thanks a lot i have looked everywhere

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Rob looks likne when i go back from McRobs I will have an extra body as well.

a 9 month old German shepard 🙂

I just love Animals especialy dogs (as they chase all the cats away)

and they keep the house and family feeling secure when i’m not there

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Cherwell do do frog juice i saw it on the shelf the other week

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We had 3 rabbits which i called

“Double” “Barrell” & “Shotgun” 🙄

just have the 2 kids , 2 black labs 5 fish and Pat the rat now

looking at a nother dog though as our male lab is getting old and pos wont last another 2 yrs

Ohh and congrats Timmy

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Congrats to you both … (birthday) to a (angel)

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John that wasn’t waffle

Thats realy usefull information that a newbie like me would probably never got hold of until it was too late and made myself look like a proper clown infront of a customer.

Thanks for that John

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Welcome to the group

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Steve i didn’t recognise you 😮

I normaly just look at the pictures now and not read the names , bad habbit but i forget names but not faces.

and yes u should have used the ‘tanned & handsome’ like i did 😆

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Looks cool Dewi

Not to overpowering and short and to the point.

Where are u located again as i’m off to Glasgow next week and if it’s on my way back i may just pop in and nick some of your buscuits 🙂

Also off topic but have u recieved your tickets for the sign show yet? as all i have got is an aplication through the post but i filled that out online.

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Dewi use a CR/RW and u dont loos e the rest of the disk, just use it like a floppy until it’s full, ok they are a few pence more but u can keep on using them , once it’s full transfer it all onto a normal cd then wipe it clean and start again

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Looks Great Dewi

All the best on monday and far far into the future for you

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Thanks Kawy

They may just do, i’ll show them to the customer.

He is also gointo bring in a magazine with the cars he is interested in and I may have to get vectorwise to try and do something as well.

Thanks again

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Looking very good Dewi

Once i get a bit more confidence i’ll tackle something like that.

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Thanks anyway Dewi

Have u got Braodband ?? if so join in the multi player fun of Call of Duty at our clan server .:Desert Rats:. the ip is

195.149.21.69:28960

web address http://www.dr-clan.net

I use teh all seeing eye to join server sit a great tool as u can specify teh country u want to join and it cuts down on the huge list of servers.

Give it a try you will never look back on Multi player gaming ( and it fills in the downtime while waiting for jobs just ask McRod 😆 )

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Ok Np Nigel thanks for looking anyway.

I may have to get my black felt and tracing paper out

Scary ( (oogle)

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Thanks Nigel but it’s actualy the pictures of the cars i’m after

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Sorry nigel

Not an outline more of a logo of any performance jap car

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What are rungs martin 😛

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I’d love to take you up on that offer Dave , but as i only cut not print i can’t 🙁

Ohh well i will definatly watch this space though

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I feel so sorry for you Henry, wahta cock up on their part. I realy hope the insurance company sort this out quick and don’t try and fob you off.

Keep us updated ……………

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Looks good apart from all the bubbles 😛

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Yep got to agree with the others it does look nice albeit a tad dirty. you realy must clean the surface before you start 😛

Good job

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Ordered my Tickets too, not sure which day/days to go on yet

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That looks Smart Nice work

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Interesting subject..

I put my A board up last week out the front of the garage and someone last night curled it up, now not sure if it’s a drunk( pub over road) or someone else , not happy bunny , but if it was in teh wrong place all they had to do was ask me to move it ……

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That is some stunning work.

A gift that i wished i posessed 🙁

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Welcome to the boards, i’m sure you will enjoy it here.

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Please Simon if you don’t mind.

I was asked specificaly for Mr Happy and Little Miss Naughty, but you never know if i may be asekd for the others too.

Paul

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😳

you found me out Jill.

😮

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Nigel your a star

Thanks

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John i know i’m relativley new to all this , but when i chose my company name thats why i didn’t use the “Town” name, i used a derivative (Rob check my spelling pls 🙂 ) of it, so instead of Aylesbury Signs & Grafix, (I live in Aylesbury Vale, which is buckinghamshires county district council. ) I chose Vale Signs & Grafix to encompase the whole area and beyond.

Only time will tell if i got it right 😕