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Need to find a good cheep source for some foam letters, got suggestions? Thanks
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hey Ed...ya want cheep? Go down to Home Depot, Lowe's, or other building supply place...and get some rigid foam insulation...and cut yuor own with a jig saw! EASY!
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Ed You want a fair price and a good job? call Ernie n Diane Balch they are merchants here... they do an exceptional job.. I highly recommend them
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Though they will be inexpensive, I'd say about four or five years maximum life out of polystyrene foam letters(the insulation foam type). If you do them yourself, paint them with at least two or three coats of acrlylic latex. When the paint starts to break down, sunlight will disintegrate the foam. HDU foam will last much longer.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7405 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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Yeah, I had considered making them myself. I've got all the stuff (routers and Lord only knows how many templates) I just hadn't done it in a while (since I quit remodeling supermarkets) so I thought I'd see how expensive they might be to just by 'em. So far, looks like I may go ahead and make them. On a side note, I had just listed the old templates (in various degrees of condition after all this time) in the local paper to see if somebody else could use them. I know just how much money and time originally went in to them and hated the idea of throwing them away. It figures that the minute you start cleaning something out, you find a purpose for it, only usually it's after you've gotten rid it. Thanks for the responces.
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Actually Wayne, You can make EPS foam letters last a heckuva lot longer than four or five years if you coat them with two part polyurethane. (the same material used on sprayed-in truck bed liners) They'll outlast HDU by a long shot after they're coated with the stuff I use.
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The rhino liner urethane should work. The key is that it has to kick (turn solid) really fast. If it kicks fast enough, it doesn't actually have time to eat the foam. The material I use kicks in 3 to 4 seconds. If you seal it with latex paint first you get a better result.
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Ed, Just recently ordered foam letters from SignLetters out of south Florida. Price is very reasonable. My order hasn't been delivered yet but was told they would be here in a week. Free shipping on orders over $100. Check them out at :
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You can get foam letters at Mossburg. Ive used them several times, and they do very good work also. Ive got one set of letters that has been up over six years, and they look great. Painted with latex paints. Heres the link: Mossburg
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