@%$#@% Magnetics... A hate those things! I try to talk my customers out of them, but if that's what they have their heart set on, I go ahead and make them, but with a lot of reservations. I have a printed instruction sheet that I give the customer with their signs (Stapled right to their invoice). Tells them all the stuff they shouldn't do with them and how to take care of them, but I guess I'm going to have to add one more item to the disclaimer list.
I made a pair of mags for a real estate lady last spring. Everything was fine up till last week. I guess she keeps all her info, listings, pictures, etc., on floppy disks so she can pull stuff up on her laptop when she's out of the office. Well, it seems she laid some of her 3.5's on the back seat of her car. When she quit for the day, guess where she put her magnetic signs. Damn... you guys and gals must be clairvoyant.. that's exactly where she put them. Right on top of the puter disks.
She called me and wanted to know if there was any way I could fix the corrupted disks, since obviously I must have run into this problem before...... I tried to think of some clever answer, but I was so dumbfounded by her stupidity, I couldn't think of a single thing.
------------------ Jerry Mathel Jerry Mathel Signs Grants Pass, Oregon signs@grantspass.com
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Answer is simple...put them back in a puter abnd recopy them !
------------------ Si Allen #562 La Mirada, CA. USA (714) 521-4810 ICQ # 330407 "SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
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Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
Magnetics rank right up there with fruit flies,mosquitoes and politicians.... There must be a reason for em...what the !@#$ is it?
I work part`time for a computer shop, and I was sent out on a service call. The service tag said, "computer acting screwie".
I drive into this "high`end" office complex. Law, Mortage, and Real Estate offices. I find the place, introduce myself, and was shown to the computer.
"I was dieing inside laughing" I was trying so hard not to show my laughter.
Someone had put refridgerator magnets all over both sides of the computer case.
The electromagnetic field caused the computer to have "Alsheimer's", and after some nurturing, and a complete low`level hard drive format, its alive.(again)
------------------ Richard Bustamante 12646 E. American Ave. Del Rey, Ca. 93616 e-mail: sign_wiz@pacbell.net
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Magnetics CAN be good for business... A couple of months ago a regular customer drove over with his son and the son's "new" Jeep Cherokee, towing a small trailer with one of their products mounted on it. Son was starting into the family business as a salesman and was to tow this trailer around to demonstrate the product. My customer wanted to screw aluminum signs to the sides and back of the product on the trailer but son wanted magnetics on his "new" Jeep. I explained the problems inherent with magnetics but son's wishes prevailed. I produced the magnetics and got paid. A week later I got a call from Dad. Could I make up the aluminum signs we had originally discussed please? Yep!!! Re-did the magnetic signs as aluminum signs and got paid for them too! I made money twice on the same job. So magnetics CAN be OK!!!
------------------ Dave Grundy shop#340 AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley "A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Thanks Jerry, I too provide an instruction sheet to customers with magnetic signs. Guess it wouldn't hurt to add that to the list.
I'm always careful to keep mag signs and scraps away from my computer and plotter too.
------------------ Wayne Webb Webb Sign Studio,Inc. creators of "woodesigns" "autograph your work with excellence" webbsignstudio@digitalexp.com
Posted by Steve Eisenreich (Member # 1444) on :
Try hard drive mechanic or Norton utilities and their are a couple other programs that may be able to undelete the files from these disks. As a test I was able to recover some files that had been deleted and formated I used hard drive mechanic.
------------------ Steve Eisenreich PC Bytes Cold Lake, Alberta pcbytes@telusplanet.net
Posted by Brad Ferguson (Member # 33) on :
Speaking of giving customers a printed instruction (read: disclaimer) sheet, I don't think it's a waste of time to add: 'Magnetic signs will not stick to aluminum to or fiberglass vehicle panels.'
Also, it helps to tell myself: "These people are not really stupid, just badly informed."
