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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-08-2007, 03:23 PM:
 
Need a contact that paints Drive Inn screens. Preferably located in the mountain states but from other areas also ok.

Thanks!

Mark
 

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Posted by Phil Housh (Member # 1721) on 05-08-2007, 04:08 PM:
 
Hey Mark,

Call Karen Cornwell at the Parma Drive-in (don't have the number) She gets her screen painted almost every other year!
 

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Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 05-08-2007, 04:33 PM:
 
Mark,
I painted mine myself 2 years ago with a rented hydraulic life, a 5 gallon bucket of Sherwin Williams A-100 Flat latex exterior paint, and an 18" wide roller.

Took all day long to do it, and the rented orange lift was almost white by the time I was done.

Can they not paint it themselves??
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-08-2007, 05:23 PM:
 
Phil, I called Karen and she last had her's painted 8 years ago by Carl Harvey from Oregon. Tried his numbers but to no avail. and she thinks he may have retired by now. The customer is too old to do the painting himself... anyone want to come do it?

Mark
 

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Posted by Phil Housh (Member # 1721) on 05-08-2007, 06:46 PM:
 
Mark,

Try Port Wagner's son up in Grangeville I de ho. His son painted the drive in screen up there. Also, he is a "professional" painter.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-10-2007, 01:45 PM:
 
Mark, it's Drive-IN, not Drive INN.
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 05-10-2007, 04:43 PM:
 
If it is a rural area get a company that paints the exteriors of barns
They haved the lifts for it
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-10-2007, 06:56 PM:
 
Tim,
I been waitin ta see if ya knowticed that..... if its In its Inn!

Good suggestion Gord! I'll pass that along... there are ALOT of barns out there.
Mark
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-10-2007, 11:12 PM:
 

quote: Gordon McLeod

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If it is a rural area get a company that paints the exteriors of barns.

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Just be careful who you hire!




 

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Posted by Cody Martin (Member # 2523) on 05-11-2007, 05:25 AM:
 
LOL...that's the funnies thing I've seen in a while...gotta get out more
 

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Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 05-11-2007, 05:59 AM:
 
Randy,

You have solved the problem of what to do with the screen before dark! Great screen advertising idea.

Then as it gets dark . . . .

KEN
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-11-2007, 10:43 AM:
 

quote: Kenneth Wuepper

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Then as it gets dark . . . .

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Quickly paint it white again?
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-11-2007, 03:43 PM:
 
Actually a screen made from four sided square alumnium tubing with baked white paint on one side and changable strips on three other sides would be unique.... Ads could indeed actually be presented and cycled through back and forth and with a push of a botton the screen would go all white. Perhaps I should patent this...... . At least you can say you read about it on Film-Tech!

Mark
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 05-11-2007, 03:46 PM:
 
Three sided tubing might have a better chance of actually being able to rotate there Mark. I'd hate to see the wind loading on such a beast though. Picking sheet metal off of the hoods of cars is bad enough.
 

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 05-11-2007, 04:23 PM:
 
We have some billboards that use triangular strip technology to cycle between three different messages. Probably already patented.

--jhawk
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-11-2007, 04:42 PM:
 

quote: John Hawkinson

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We have some billboards that use triangular strip technology to cycle between three different messages.

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quote: John Hawkinson

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We have some billboards that use triangular strip technology to cycle between three different messages. Probably already patented.

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If "using triangles in rotating signs" is patented the holder will lose any patent suit now that the USPTO has been recently instructed to stop issuing (and revoke challenged) patents for a now not insanely rigorous definition of obvious.
 

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Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 05-12-2007, 09:30 AM:
 
Sorry, Daryl, but the holding was a lot more narrow than that. Nobody knows exactly what it means (yet), but don't expect anything profound out of it

--jhawk
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 05-12-2007, 10:34 AM:
 

quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea

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Three sided tubing might have a better chance of actually being able to rotate there Mark.

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ROFL!

quote: Randy Stankey

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Isn't that why the center slats move first then the adjacent ones move outward from the center in a wavelike pattern? So they don't hit

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I think that's probably just showmanship, Randy. I could be wrong, but I don't imagine collisions are an issue with triangular pieces, unless they overlap in some fashion.

EDIT: No overlaps...


Tri-Action Louvered Signs

Graphics Guidelines PDF
 

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Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 05-12-2007, 11:08 AM:
 
The billboard company here installed one of those off Frankford avenue within sight of the theatre. At least once a week, I'll drive by it and observe that it's stuck, with the merger of 2 billboards on it.
 

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Posted by Steve Wilson (Member # 2411) on 05-13-2007, 11:35 AM:
 
I like Barry paint my own screen. The last time I did, it took me a day and a half and cost me about $1500 to do it myself with some additional labor added into that total. Lifts can cost from $400 a day and up. I have a metal screen and painted it with water based Sherwin Williams metal paint and a top coat of Flat.

I lucked out this past summer and picked up an old 60 foot bucket truck for about $3500, cost me $2000 in repairs, but its a very sturdy bucket for sure. If you have very many screens, which I dont have, this I think would be a good thing to have around at this price. I use it for all sorts of projects as I also have a 3 story building down town that I use it on too.

Did I tell you that I was scared of heights!!!!!!

I can pull loops in a airplane, do stalls, and wing overs and I am just fine, put me on a 12 foot ladder and I get sick!

[ 05-13-2007, 02:10 PM: Message edited by: Steve Wilson ]
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 05-13-2007, 07:02 PM:
 

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Did I tell you that I was scared of heights!!!!!!

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