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Yesterday, Saturday, I did a job at a local auto wrecking yard. Saturday is their busiest day. I painted their logo, 10ft x 10ft on their floor. Dispite the cones and caution tape, I had two oafs walked right into the wet paint. I made them stop, take off their shoes and get away. It was pretty funny though. The guys working there all got a good laugh, plus they were pretty good at yelling out to customers to watch for the wet paint. I also made sure to paln the job where I would be done by closing time.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Last year, I guess it was, a neighbor gave me this funny looking contraption. Had a little 2 stroke gas motor on top, three pneumatic wheels, and paint spattered all over. I thought it was a nifty portable airless sprayer; turns out I was right, it's a lot striper. What am I gonna do with this thing?!? A week later a customer calls and asks if I do lot stripng. Well, as a matter of fact I do. So I modified my electric airless sprayer, and got a long extension cord. The gas motor was shot, but what makes these machines nice is how precisely the tires roll, and how it holds the gun part of the sprayer. Part of the job was a 150 foot long double stripe in front of a nice hotel. Hmmm, I guess I need to practice first. So I took my gizmo, and a generator down to the lowest level of their parking garage, where nobody ever goes, and gave them some free striping. Thankfully, I already had previous instruction in using a horse drawn plow, and believe it or not, the technique is similar. (You lean a little in order to steer. Don't turn it like a bicycle.) So now, being ready for the big leagues, I went back up to do the lot outside. Everything was going splendidly, mahvelous, you know. I had cones set up to direct traffic, but I looked way down the lot, and some guy (I didn't say Bozo) moved my cones, drove across the lines; and of course he was followed by the two cars behind him. I started to lose it, then remembered how mannerly everyone there was. I finished swinging my arms around while choking the last words. Good thing that the paint was fast drying, there was little damage. Then, back where I was before, I had 4 or 5 cones very close to each other, to cover a tiny section of stripe that I had to hand paint next to a speed bump. All kinds of room around this little coned in section (about 2' X 2') but no-o-o-o, somebody with sneakers walked right through the middle. They literally had me comin' and goin', like a cartoon character. Moral of the story, if you ever do lot striping, do it on the day that the store is closed. Being that this was a hotel, they never closed. Lots of fun.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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Alicia, what are you using for paint? Enamels? If you were to paint on wood floors which would you suggest these days?
I would rather stay with a water-based paint, so is there an acrylic that would work for bright colors, will be a scenery within a flourish like a cigar band pic.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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Being that I have the country's largest supply of 1-Shot and Chromatic paints (So I think so) I used some backgroud enamel paint that was put out by a local (Now owned by Grimco) sign supply comapany. I added some Valspar hardener to the paint, gave it two coats and it all went okay.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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