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SOrry if I dont know where to put this. Any suggestions on good quality translucent film for Roland SP300V printer. Outdoor use 30 inch 5 years will work. Thanks for any help as prices are getting up there with present suppliers.

May not be seeing right because of photo but look at the length of the pole above rings as well as the short distance between the two rings. It doesn't look right. Almost like length of pole above rings could create so much leverage that small space between rings could never have handled any weld problem. Seen jobs in field where all welds went bad (junk welds) but sign would have to be pulled up by wind out of sign or bottom pole wall thickness would have to give for this to happen. In this case looks like bad welds and leverage caused by spacing and placement of rings could have created enough leverage that any standard or heavy gauge wall thickness might not be enough.

Greetings, We have many boom/bucket trucks and a number of them call for different type hydraulic fluid for the booms. Transmission fluid, areal fluid, T22 ISO32, etc., etc. There are 3 issues that come to mind about type of fluid (probably more, please help with list) and they would be: 1 - does not transfer electrical current or minimizes it 2 - stays stable and does not bog down truck at cold temps as well as keep viscous enough at high temps so boom operates properly. We work in temps from 10 -100 3 - does not hurt gaskets, seals, cylinders, etc. over time Any other issues that come to mind please add. Manufacturer of booms all say use this or that specific fluid - my question is - can I use one type of fluid (or 2, say trans fluid for 1 type of truck and T22 for all others) so I don't have to have 5 different 5 gallon containers, keep inventory up on 5, and make sure trucks all have the right hydraulic fluid for each truck. Life would be simpler with 1. I constantly see guys (farmers, forklifts, etc.) just using ANY hydraulic fluid for their equipment and they say no difference. For our work, 3 issues above are important (as well as other you may add). Any 1 fluid do the trick for all hydraulic systems? Thanks for any input.

Greetings and thanks for input. We are ultra safe with our crane as no sign is worth one of our guys lives. Radocy 80 footer. Great truck by the way. Going straight up or at an angle no big deal but my question relates to basically going out to the side. On pavement, good concrete, etc., all is good. On dirt we know is solid all is good. Generally, when we have to go with full stick out, say to reach a sign 30 ft in the air but 65 ft (about) from the truck we have said no to outriggers on sidewalk to get to sign or any lawn, sidewalk, etc. Im talking about 1 man for service work out of basket and not lifting weight with crane. When thinking this through it seems that the sidewalk should be sound. I'm not worried about cracking it since we would get the ok from the customer. We are only worried about safety. Most sidewalks around here are 4" concrete but more importantly below the concrete is packed good solid dirt. Is a sidewalk an safe place to put an outrigger with your stick out that far. Also, on a lawn or dirt you are not sure is hard packed at what point would you say no for safety. How would you guage how compacted it is, again, with stick out at full extension. Again, thanks for any input.

Greetings and thanks for any help. Any good websites for Bucket, Boom, Crane Etc message boards? We have a good amount of bucket/crane trucks and it would be great to get feedback, additional sources for parts, etc, etc from people or companies that have the same trucks. As an example we just bought a used Altec on a chevy, have a question on a switch and altec cant determine what its for. Assume if we took a picture and posted to one of these websites an actual service Tech user would be able to give feedback and pinpoint it a lot faster than us having to trace it out. Any ideas? Thanks, Lance

Had a large stock of 15mm neon boots (to cover electrode and GTO on a bendback for example) so has been a long time since we purchased them. Pricing of $42 - $50 per hundred ? ANy better $/supplier? Thanks, Lance

Greetings and thanks for any help. First off, we did not sell this message center, merely trying to help a new customer that bought one and now seems to be stuck. I figure that this must be happening across the country so maybe this will also help others. If there is a thread already addressing this please direct me. Got a call from a church that their message center was not operating properly. When Tech arrived said only labels he could find were "AS LED" and "Alcon Technologies". Looks like AS LED is the manufacturer of the message center (or maybe they just slapped their label on) and Alcon is the manufacturer of the transmitter and receiver. Does anyone have a contact number for these guys or a source for parts if in fact they are out of business. Of course already looked on line with no luck (found an Alcon company but they dont know what were talking about). More importantly, with all the message center start ups and then they go out of business, is there anything to do besides tell the customer "sorry, you got screwed and now you need to buy from a Dactronics or Watchfire, etc" Thanks for any help. Lance

Greetings and thanks for any help. Anyone have success/failure with ProSign, Sign Search, Adwords, etc. Was anything worth the $ spent? Has anyone used any of these services and calculated the total cost vs any sale? Again, thanks for any help.

Any help would be appreciated. Anyone have a good employee handbook or access to one that is specifically to our trade? Lots of employee handbooks out there but I have not seen one for Sign companies. Need things like "responsible to drive professionally" "not use comany stock or trucks to service other than company customers", you get the picture. Again, thanks for any help.

Thanks very much for all replies. To be clear, we would never, ever try to cut any company out of the business they gave us. We follow the Boy Scout Motto here, simply - ... trustworthy... loyal...etc.....BUT many of these non-competes read this way. This leads me to the answer that hit closest home: "But to say you basically cannot exist in the market because you may possibly solicit some nameless generic customer that they may or may not actually have I believe is related to the precept of the Void Contract.....How about if they made you sign a contract that said you would smash your truck into a fence weekly as part of your work schedule. Would it be enforceable ? It is a void contract from inception. Could they sue you and win? You can sue anyone for anything in our present society but I doubt any court would hold that scenario up and award damages. This would also get into the area of enforcing ""Unjust Enrichment" and the legal system, in my past experience, doesn't do this." It seems to me though that the answer above about "the precept of the Void Contract" and " into the area of enforcing Unjust Enrichment" seems pretty reasonable. Without giving us the names of the customers and also saying we can’t do business with “the customers (again, not named) suppliers” it could be any and every brand and retailer. Considering they are not using us exclusively, and their contract does not say so it seems even further reasonable. Anybody else have any actual experience with this line of the question or more feedback on if this clause has any weight since it is so vague and far-fetched? THANKS AGAIN

Greetings and thanks for any feedback. We do a lot of work for national sign and maint service companies. The wording on the non-compete part of the contract for many of them, if you read them carefully as we do, is pretty vague and draconian at the same time. Could be dangerous for our/your business and heres what I mean. How do you handle this but also do work for these national accounts? Please realize I know the "reasonable"intent of this part of the contract is so we dont try to simply go direct to corporate XYZ and say "we are doing service work for you so lets just cut out ABC National Service out and save you some money". That is wrong and we will never do that. But the way it is worded does a lot more. Non-compete says something to the effect of "you will not do business with our customers or any of their other suppliers for 2 years or we will sue you for $". 1 - They do not list who their customers are. 2 - how can anyone know who their customers suppliers are? 3 - we do interior lighting, exterior lighting and sign work for different national vendors so we may be doing sign work for one national maint company while interior work for another. If you sign off on one of these (and a lot of them say some form of this) it seems that either you cannot do any work for any other company or some nutty company lawyer at least has a case if you do. Stupid boiler plate clause but its there - what do you do?