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OK, to follow up on my last thread re the sign kit box I found....
Please tell us what you regularly carry in your signkit, what features you like about your particular kit and suggestions for us newbies as to what to put in them.
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micheal has a cattle prod in his...hehehehehehehe
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I keep a roll of masking tape, fine line tape, water guilding tools, a pack of gold, spinners, pounce wheel, charcoal stick, stabilos, paint can opener, exacto with a pack of blades, hardner, low and high temp reducer, jap dryer, brush cleaner, wipes, my apron and I load whatever paint I need for the job and my brushes.
probably more but I'm too tired to get up hahaha
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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Adrienne... asking me that is kinda like me asking you what's in your purse!!! LOL!! Women understand that!
I bet we could have a contest for the strangest things in a sign kit. Just ask Bruce how he felt the first time he used mine, just to open it and find a blue beanie-baby dinasaur!!!
-------------------- Dana Ferry St Cloud, MN Posts: 1556 | From: St Cloud, MN | Registered: May 1999
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Which one? I keep at the least three kits,...one for my traditional artists tools and lettering,one for gold leaf,and one for my airbrushes. Tradionally a sign kit was used to transport all the tools a journeyman would need on site to do the job at hand.No need for pasteboard boxes/milk crates/grocery bags and misc. other containers.It all goes in the kit.Paint,thinner,brushes,tape,chalkline,drawing tools,rags,and a multitude of other things needed to get the job done in a prompt and business like manner.At times I have had seperate leak proof containers for paints that might not fit in my kit for the particular job at hand but all in all the ideal is to be able to go to the actual jobsite with as little effort as necessary. 9 times out of ten I can carry enough paint and tools to a site with one trip with a kit in one hand and an extra container for extra paints and patterns rullers and whatever.,in the other. Idealistically all your tools needed to letter a sign and or vehicle/window,etc, should be in this kit. If the newbies want a list I suggest they get a good trade manual and read up on the subject.Most good trade manuals will have a basic list of necessary items needed.
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Pat King's kit is awesome! I think there is a photo at www.letterrip.org under the panel jam photos. He had some things attached to the top of the lid with velcro and uses floral clay in the drawers so that the brushes don't roll around. It really is one of the nices kit boxes I've seen. He can probably tell you more. Jack Lindenberger has a really nice kit box too, but I don't have a photo of that. I'd say go to a meet and look around. Jane
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Each Kit is different for each job.. But I do care the most important piece of the industry. "My Business Card" as I am ask for it all the time. LOL Not really as I try to hand out more that asked for!
-------------------- Stephen Deveau RavenGraphics Insinx Digital Displays
Letting Your Imagination Run Wild! Posts: 4327 | From: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada | Registered: Jan 2000
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Tape measures, foam brushes, string, pounce wheels, masking tape, carpenter's snap line, squeegees, small bottles of RapidTec schtuffs, pearl powders, china markers, a little extra lemon oil, scissors, retractable knives, airbrush cleaners, and, of course, brushes. Box 2 has the paints and box 3 has the airbrushing equipment.
I just added something new to the weaponry last week. Three small pieces of coroplast with 1 1/4" screws thru them and wrapped in black vinyl. Really handy for stringing ovals on larger stuff.
Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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I posted some pics of my new kit a few months back but I've got no way of posting anything now. It's a deep top two drawer metal box from Sears. Inside are 36 4oz bottle of One Shot 5 of PPG Concept 8 of HOK urethane , 1 each of OS reducer, OS cat, HOK cat, PPG cat PPG reducer, OS reducer a bottle of fish eye eliminator ( no I don't use it all the time, only when necessary, the bottle is twenty something years old and still two thirds full ) 25 quills ranging from 0-26, five flats, one soft hair fitch, a pair of pliers, a razor blade scraper, a lil chizler, chalk, charcoal, stabillos and staedtlers, a grease pencil, x-acto knife and blades, a pounce wheel, A Koh I Noor sharpener, 47 sword stripers, 6 scroll brushes, 2 signiture brushes.
My old kit had twice as much stuff in it and weighed about seventy pounds. I also have a tote tray with about thirty rolls of Finessee tape, 1/4 inch fine line, masking tape. Another box holds my airbrush stuff, various wrenches, pounce bags, Static Guard, a butane torch and a squeege ( not for vinyl, but a big one like you would clean windows with, gets water off a vehicle QUICK ) I also have a bucket full of various sponges, pads and other odds and ends to ad texture with. A gallon of laquer thinner, wax and grease remover, a quart of acetone, a quart of alcohol and a gallon of mineral spirits. I also carry a waste basket a 6' step ladder and a Killer Kart. If I can't do the job with what's in my truck, I pass on it.
IF I have to install vinyl, I'll take whatever is necessary with me. The other things stay in the truck at all times
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
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Roger dont worry, I carry BIG bottles of RP, RR, and RT in my kit, which is just a plain white 5 gallon bucket.
I lay my vinyls around the wall of the bucket so they stay relatively flat and dont take up much room this way, then I hang the RP,RR, and RT on the lip of the bucket using the triggers as hangers - bottles to the outside.. then toss measuring tape, masking tape, squeegee, heat gun, X-acto and a straight edge razor into the center... everything's right there and ready to go. If I need an extension cord for the heat gun I carry that seperately.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Wow! Stephen....I did the same thing just the other day. a brand new gallon of Rapid Remover. I had the only blue truck in town that was intense orange. That stuff will gag you in large doses !
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Aside from my kit, I have one of those "square bucket Thingies" they sell at the paint store. I guess it's for using with a roller, comes with removable "slanted grill thingie" to evenly roll the paint onto the roller. The grill thing is gone, but the rest is mega handy. It's where I keep brush oil, thinner, can openers, half-used paper towels, and anything having to do with paint cans. Often, when on a ladder, with several things to do up there, I put the tools in the square bucket, and don't have to come down for each step.
Of course, I couldn't let this go by without some redneck trick to tell you. Back when I used to do alot of window splash, instead of driving back from some outlying area, I would stay and work after dark. Always had my light stands with me, but sometimes I had to get creative to find electricity. At some hardware store, I found what looks like a plastic pair of plyers, for changing fuses of some sort. By wrapping electrical tape in the right place, they became sturdier.
Then if the client didn't have an exterior electrical outlet, I would find some sort of "live" box or equipment, open it up, and with the plastic pliers, clip two alligator clips in the right place, which were of course wired into a 110 cord end. Presto! insant electricity. Nifty James Bond/secret agent man action to boot! You gotta love it.
Sometimes it was as simple as unscrewing a light bulb, and using one of those screw-in outlet thingies. Also I had different tools for turning on water spigots that were missing their handles.
As far as I know, those things are still in the kit.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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James...altho I've never tried the electrical hook-up trick (and don't think I'm brave enough to try it) those light fixtures with the outlet in the side have been a standard in my splash kit for years...
Same with those water sources, I have a set of every different kind of handle!
Thanks for the tips, I have my kit, now to stock it.
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