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I guess here in town, You need a permit to put up a fence, but not a building........ Go figure,,,

Whats a building permit?

That would probably be illegal here in the states , To make your own plates and try to pass them off as real.... Then you would be an inmate making real ones... :-

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Time yourself doing it, When I get something like this, I time myself weeding, and taping it. then Divide that by your hourly rate, and figure out material cost,(something like this would be minimal for materials). Add in some design time and you have a price. So to give an example of my pricing structure, I quick did one of these, just like yours, timed myself prepping weeding and taping and it took appx. 1 Min. It was actually easy to weed, I pull from above the L on professional and go towards the p on performer and it pealed off really fast, Then pick out all the small ones in the letters, slap some tape on it and its done. If you want to know more how I do multiples like this pm me. Anyways getting back to the pricing. So at 1 Min that works out to be $1.25 (at $75/hr) For the labor, Now add about $.05 for materials, and you come up with $1.30. Now with your $.40....... If it takes you 1 Min to do the job, 1 Min would be $.40 take that X 60 (min/hr) and you get $24/hr Say it takes you 2 Min to do the job, If we figure that in, 1 Min would be $.20 take that X 60 (min/hr) And you get $12.00/Hr. And total job, $24-$40. Is that worth 2-4hrs of you time??? One more thing, When you figure out the time. Don't think you can just bust the things out, Try and figure out the real time it takes you. I can charge $75/hr Because that is my skill level, at first I was at about $30. The more practice you get the better you will be, and the more productive. Sorry for the long post.

Which Corel Draw are you using? I know in X3 It is Super easy to outline something like that.

I seen some things about this the other day, And it just ticks me off.. They ask the government for help because of the biggest quarterly LOSSES in history. 62 Billion... look at this, http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/02/markets.whatlossbuys/index.html?eref=rss_latest gives you a little idea, Now with the bonuses.... Isnt a bonus supossed to happen if you have done well??? I know if the company I work for lost money, I would not get a bonus... But hey, If you have a company that is loosing billions of dollars and are hiring,, Id be happy to spend the millions in bonuses for doing a bad job... just my .02

Well Ill close this topic with this,, at least im not the only one that thinks this way..

I have no problem with bailing out a company if they tried to keep afloat, But that would also mean you should have tried everything to keep afloat, if you were trying to keep afloat, wouldn't you maybe all take a pay cut (who needs a salary like that) and not take the bonus??,,, Maybe we all just have a conscience?? At least I do.....

But do you think they earned the bonus?? on top of their extravagant wages?

I thought I'd save some time and send art out to get vectorized,, I was wrong, I should have just re-drawn it myself. They did a horrible job on it, it would work great for printing, as line can cross each other and you can do shading, but not for cutting.. Which is what I said I needed it for.. I then contacted them and asked if they could fix it, No reply. In a time with the economy the way it is, I would never think about burning someone... I wont post what company it was, but if you want to know, pm me , then you will save yourself 40 bucks too..

Joe re did it for me!! Thanks!!!! I will be sending him more work later on. :thumbsup:

Actually I looked in my old signcraft mag, thought that would be a quick place to go..

Thought Id put this here to see if anyone knows someone, We are looking for an experienced robotic welding technician. We use ABB robotics and need someone to move up to good ol North Dakota to help run the line. The robotics came out of Tower Automotive in Milan, TN., Maby you guys know someone who knows somone who worked there??Or at any of the Tower's that closed down.. Anyways I thought Id put it on here. Thanks a bunch. Just message me if you know of anyone.. Benjiman

I know, kind of early, but it did get 31* here the other night,,, Just cleaning them up and getting them ready to ride, I have a 99 Polaris 600 xcsp, and a 2006 Yamaha Phazer and The little guys kitty kat.. What does everyone else have??

Well I make jerky out of a lot of things,, my best is Rabbit though,,, Anyways I cut the meat into about 3/8"thick strips and then take a bowl with some Teriyaki sauce and Worcestershire sauce a bit of salt and pepper, then add a little water, enough to cover all the meat, let it sit in the bowl for about 24hrs in the fridge. Then I place the meat on racks and pepper 1/2 of the jerky then place them in the oven. you will want to put a big pan on the bottom rack with some tin foil to catch the drippings. Then turn the oven on the lowest setting and crack the door open just a little bit, It usually takes about 2hrs to cook/dry the meat out. When your done I usually bag them in ziplock's and place in the fridge, after I eat some of course. I use the same maranade for about a week. just keep adding a little spice here and there... that reminds me, I should go hunting soon...

I haven't been on here too much lately, been really busy at work, got some new CNC's, well new to us!!! Anyway, Here is a new speaker I picked up last night. It weighs 70lbs!!! This thing is a tank.... I posed it next to a couple other speakers I have that are pretty good sized themself!!! Its an Elemental Designs 13Av2. The other 2 speakers are a Crossfire BMF12D4, and an Eclipse SW6123DVC...

I really dont know It was such a good deal, couldnt pass it up.. All my cars have stereos in them, mabe I just need to buy another car??

I had this problem with my satellite. we went in and put it in safe mode, then deleted ALL the drivers. It only took a couple clicks for my computer friend, then restarted it. When it detected all the hardware and installed all the new drivers, It has worked flawlessly. Just took a corrupt driver to screw up the whole machine.. I can call my computer guy to see excatly how he did it, or someone on here probably knows. it worked for me!!

Man great job!!!!!! also, your avatar makes me itch to ride the sled this year, all the old timers around here say gonna be a record snow year.. hope their right!

I traded a sign for all of my windows on my audi done....50% front and 35% on all the backs.. good trade .. He said he needed a simple sign, and I said I needed tint. :-)

6 in a row makes it go!!! mmmmm, I love the smell of Diesel in the morning..

My little brother wanted some eyelids on his headlights.. Pretty tough curve to work with, I just free hand cut the vinyl to make it look right, no cutter for this one.

darkdan,,,more to it than that.... Ya see, if I really did it illegally, I wouldn't have put it on here, let alone video taped it..... She bought a carbon fiber one to replace this one, she hit a deer, notice in the first vid,on the passenger side above the headlight?? She didn't know we knew about the cheating and thought we were going to put the carbon one on for her... But we let her new boyfriend put it on. So we saved her the trouble of taking the old one off. Actually we should have charged labor... Don't believe me about the cheating?? Ask anyone in the video. I wont post full names, but if ya really want to talk to Jay, message me and I will give ya his number, or Dustin's, or Schatz's or Bubba's.. This isn't on youtube, I could take lots of video's of shooting things that would get youtube hits... Maybe shooting things with the M11/9, or the street sweeper. Guns that need a Class 3 to possess, which I do not have,(but a good friend does)... But what is the fun of that?? Come out sometime and we can go shooting

Found this today, did it a couple years ago, still get a kick out of it,, Heres the story, Jay's girlfriend cheated on him a couple times in a weekend, so we stole the hood off her eclipse.... then shot the crap out of it, watch the videos!!! http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=963794 Why Not To Cheat On Your Boyfriend, Part 1 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=963996 Cheatin Not Cool Part 2 Thats how we do it in the country