Pub Sign

[Onoff]

One for the painters, @Dcal maybe?

The BiL does car spraying and is well versed. At 70 he's seen/worked with most paint types. Reckons we're onto a loser with this sign and that we should take it all off and start again with one type. Daughter's autistic so that won't go down too well. Basically she has to follow this through to it's logical conclusion even if it's a fail. Only at that point will she do it again.

The BiL said that you can sometimes find a coat of whatever will go on fine, like the first spray coat of acrylic lacquer did but subsequent coats of the the same (lacquer), will see it lift off.

 

[Onoff]

Well you dont get much for £45! Hoping multiple, rollered coats will be OK to do?

https://flic.kr/p/2oVpeXX

That's both sides of the sign done anyway. I'm going to sand the edges and probably give 3 coats of Bedec Barn Paint. Small madam will mask up and paint the inside edges of the frame.

https://flic.kr/p/2oVrjf4

https://flic.kr/p/2oVrLga

Then figure out how to secure it in the frame as in stainless screws or let in threaded inserts into the frame, then stainless bolts. Probably with some 3D printed PETG spacers.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ I hope there'll be a loooong line of pint glasses lined up on the bar for you once it's finally installed?

 

[DAPPH]

Well you dont get much for £45! Hoping multiple, rollered coats will be OK to do?

https://flic.kr/p/2oVpeXX

That's both sides of the sign done anyway. I'm going to sand the edges and probably give 3 coats of Bedec Barn Paint. Small madam will mask up and paint the inside edges of the frame.

https://flic.kr/p/2oVrjf4

https://flic.kr/p/2oVrLga

Then figure out how to secure it in the frame as in stainless screws or let in threaded inserts into the frame, then stainless bolts. Probably with some 3D printed PETG spacers.

Have it swinging as a traditional pub sign , there is a lot of surface area to have strong winds & gusts push on it ....... likely to snap the pole or sign or both .

 

[Onoff]

Have it swinging as a traditional pub sign , there is a lot of surface area to have strong winds & gusts push on it ....... likely to snap the pole or sign or both .

It is a swinger!

A couple of big pivot bolts at the top. There's a nominal 1/4" all round between the outside of the wooden sign frame and inside of the old iron frame.

I need to drill a few more holes in the old frame so all the "screws" hit dead centre of the frame. At the moment some holes in the frame would put the screws right on the sign edge.

Both sides have had their first coat of 2-pack pu today. It's gone on well. Dries better than here where it's just gone on, crystal clear in fact. The gloss really brings it to life.

https://flic.kr/p/2oVShfM

Lad is printing up some black PETG spacers now to go between frame and sign.

I've ordered M6 timber inserts in stainless just now. Saying that I might just use a stack of stainless wood screws around the periphery. Not sure which way to go...

 

[Onoff]

Pretty much ready to fit into the original frame. The edges are all drilled to suit the frame holes. Lad's just printing the PETG spacers. Going with M6x80 A2 woodscrews into 4.5mm holes. Plan is a nom gap between the wooden sign and original frame to keep it from trapping damp. The frame is aforementioned, phenolic resin ply. The outer edge of the sign is the "glossy" back of the ply. That's had a coat of Bedec Barn Paint. God know if it'll stay on there though I did sand it with 60 grit paper to roughen it up. It

https://flic.kr/p/2oWaTJ2

The frame's been rubbed down and cleaned, the holes opened up and etch primed. One coat of black bitumen so far. New stainless bolts all round. The steel was incredibly hard to drill even with Cobalt bits!

https://flic.kr/p/2oWattv

 

[Onoff]

Hopefully the sign will go up today!

Just waiting to hear if one of the locals is available with his tractor forks and pallet working platform. H&S first

I died down the original, rusty M12 fixing studs, applied anti seize and new nuts and washers.

As an aside I had some slightly out of date black silicone, scored from work, Dow 791 and really good stuff. November 22 was the date but it seems to have gone off OK.

I've now run a bead all round inside where the sign meets the ply frame and tooled it off with my Fugi Cramer kit.

https://flic.kr/p/2oWEkJc

 

[MattF]

and tooled it off with my Fugi Cramer kit.

Good bit of kit those, aren't they.

 

[Onoff]

Done:

https://flic.kr/p/2oWGEBo

https://flic.kr/p/2oWFgYk

https://flic.kr/p/2oWBaLb

https://flic.kr/p/2oWAYbT

https://flic.kr/p/2oWE1Jw

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Parm - look away, NOW!

 

[Onoff]

Parm - look away, NOW!

I very nearly lead with that...

Rednecks forever!

 

[Blobber]

Looks great, well done, I assume you will be sitting in the beer garden watching it swing for a bit?

 

[Onoff]

Looks great, well done, I assume you will be sitting in the beer garden watching it swing for a bit?

We already did! Sat there with a pint of British Bulldog each when we'd finished and the kids a Coke & lemonade. My daughter who painted it was made up.

What a pig to fit though. The scrolly frame is bent like a parallelogram. The sign is dead square. I had to remove 3 out of 8 M8 bolts as the heads were catching. The top bolt centres were out to the holes by 3/4". The lad with the tractor grabbed a scaffold pole and trolley jack and we jacked the corner of the frame up to try and square things up. It sort of worked. I had to pop back home to grab some more nuts, washers and a length of M12 stud. A return visit is required to touch up a few bits and fit 3 countersunk bolts in place of those removed.

 

[Onoff]

Had to go up again tonight just to make sure the sign was still up.

Bloody family came with me! So much for me spending the evening, just me, Scott Mariani and a few pints.

 

[Onoff]

Lamb roast tomorrow!

Leg of lamb on a spit roast with a bag of new potatoes emptied into the drip tray! Stick that in yer bap!

Music by Brothers From Another Cover!

 

[selectedgrub]

nice job good work

 

[Onoff]

Daughter must have had 25 - 30 people coming up to at the pub yesterday saying about the sign, saying what a good job she'd done.

I say 25 - 30 as I stopped counting after about 20. Made myself busy with 6 pints of Spirit Of Kent and 3 lamb roast baps with new potatoes.

Happy days!

 

[OJCar]

I very nearly lead with that...

Rednecks forever!

Dynamic Risk Assessment ...

 

[Onoff]

Dynamic Risk Assessment ...

My first thoughts were handrails, toe boards, fall restraint.

Then I realised I've been married 31 years.

Some say life's too short...

 

[DanZac]

Daughter must have had 25 - 30 people coming up to at the pub yesterday saying about the sign, saying what a good job she'd done.

That's brilliant and is bound to have done wonders for her self confidence and self belief in the skills and talent that she's got.

You should both be rightly proud of the outcome from this little project, which will hopefully swing there in wind for many years to come and bring a little "I did that" smile to your faces every time you pass by.