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PhillipM

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  1. Here we can go to small claims court for a $50 filing fee on issues up to $2500 and let the Justice of the Peace order them to pay. I usually tack on the filing fee and any other court cost with my settlement amount. Several times when they get served and know they have no leg to stand on, they cough up the dough.
  2. Mascara is a green product! It prevents visual pollution, previous poster excepted! The green movement is much more about political power and money to be made than it is about saving the environment. I just finished surveying 42 locations for changing Fred's Dollar Stores from yellow and red signs to blue and green. I think many companies will change to that color scheme in the following years to appear green. Isn't that what BP did when it came out with it's sunburst logo? The reason the government will not spend it's way out of a recession is they are spending borrowed money. At the G20 conference Europe banded together and said after the various "stimulus packages" expire they will have to get their financial house in order. Of course our leadership said the government has to stimulate more because the economic recovery is still fragile.
  3. Updated to CorelDRAW X5! woo hoo!

  4. is in the middle of making 566' blue neon border.

  5. fixing hydraulic leaks UGGGH

  6. Action used to call us to do service work on them. http://www.callaction.com/
  7. Darla, my "office manager", writes incoming orders on a dry erase board in the break room. We look it over first thing in the morning and figure out which way we need to go. Sometimes she stomps her feet to prod us in the right direction. She's in the black, the other girl is her sister.
  8. PhillipM

    Mystery flex face clips

    I need to know who made these clips.
  9. New installations for us have primarily been contract installs so everything is included and most have been LED. I have a supply of G, GG, standard housings, and peanut housings on hand. I've been ordering replacement transformers and not had a problem. I guess its time to hoard and salvage used components!
  10. I used GE when LED's were first coming on the market because there were so many new startups how was I supposed to know who would be around in five years to warranty their product if LED's started dropping like flies. GE was at least well known, but they scammed everyone by making us buy their wire, their connectors, their idiotic power supplies with dip switches, and their pliers for the warranty to be in effect. We sold a job last month with black by day, white at night faces using perforated black film over white plex, lighting them with white LED's. The customer complained about it being too dim.
  11. This is how to use black in marketing:
  12. You would not know they were in business just 2-3 years based on their testimonial page:
  13. You missed one that I wasn't aware of until OSHA reared it's ugly head on one of my jobs. We are supposed to have a first aid certified employee on every job. The OSHA inspector also said we need routine safety meetings, hardhats (only if work was going on overhead), fall restraints, belts were okay but full body harness preferred ($5,000 fine for that one), and reflective high visibility vests if working within so many feet of a street. OSHA LINK 1910.151(b) In the absence of an infirmary, clinic, or hospital in near proximity to the workplace which is used for the treatment of all injured employees, a person or persons shall be adequately trained to render first aid. Adequate first aid supplies shall be readily available.
  14. For those of you doing this, do you tell the night owls to avoid the chain stores that you know are handled by a national account since the local manager is not in charge of who does the work?
  15. I guess this thread is still active. Here is one I've worked with recently (very happy with them): Atlas Signs http://www.atlassignindustries.us/ COMPANY ADDRESS Florida Corporate Head Quarters, Manufacturing/Service Facility 1077 West Blue Heron Blvd. West Palm Beach, Florida, 33404 Concord, North Carolina Manufacturing/Service Facility 707 Commerce, Dr. Concord, North Carolina, 28025 CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS Main Phone: 561.863.6659 Toll Free: 800.772.7932 Main Fax: 561.863.4294 COMPANY OFFICERS CEO: Jeff Adinolfe CEO: Jim Adinolfe CEO: Joe Adinolfe
  16. It is also a matter of how thermally conductive the object is you are touching. One day while the brain was in neutral I shot my infrared temp gun at a piece of steel that was 115ºF (46ºC) and knowing I take neon off the pump at about 125ºF (62ºC) I made a painful mistake and grabbed it. I can assure you I let go quickly! I remember when the electrical rule of thumb was that you should be able to comfortably hold any component in your hand. Times have changed. Phillip
  17. Who handles books a million now? I did some service work on one a couple years ago for broadway national. They have a face missing and broadway has lost the account. TIA, Phillip
  18. We don't have any rock here except for gravel, but what about some of those anchors you drill an oversized hole for and then fill around with epoxy? How big do they make "redhead" type fasteners? I guess it would depend on how much tensile strength there is in your rock.
  19. I'm with you, I like to have a stable platform. I picked this truck up on the cheap, it's an F8000 with an Altec lift. The GVWR is 50,000 yet it only weighs 29,000. It has a new 3208 CAT, automatic, and air brakes. We call it "Goliath." I don't know what to say about your truck other than I think it's going to be an expensive fix. I looked at their site and saw your truck. It says it's sold but they have another one just like it! Good luck getting this resolved.
  20. Bad luck must be contagious. I had a neon repair job that required a towable battery powered lift to be manhandled and pushed through double doors with just a few inches clearance. Darn thing weighs 3750# and the nose wheel was one of those deals where I had to kick it to get it in the right direction, push a little, kick some more, etc. An outrigger hit the door glass and cracked it! $251.98 for a 26 x 73 piece of tinted safety glass!
  21. To explain my theft answer, I upgraded one of my 1 ton bucket trucks by buying a newer chassis and putting the old cab and chassis up for sale. While it was sitting I cancelled the insurance because I didn't see a reason to have commercial insurance with it parked. Well some low life stole it and with no insurance I took a $2500 loss.
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