Blogs
Dubai Viking ship progress
Since my last post showing the Viking ship frame we have made significant progress. The engineer required us to use heavy steel members with plenty of welding. The ship has to withstand lots of moving as we put it together, it travels to the galvanizer and also the long journey to Dubai in the middle east. To facilitate it’s removal from our (rather small) shop at to fit into the galvanizing vats it will break into six sections on each level.
Fetch Sign – Woof 5
All the parts are completed and they’re off to our paint shop. We use a PPG Waterborne Automotive Paint System which gets great results and is much less harmful to the environment. Holin, our master painter, has prepped the metal parts in our bead blaster, he then cleans them with a metal prep and they are ready for primer and paint. The foam parts are lightly sanded and we brush on a thick HDU primer.
SAMPE Long Beach 2016: Free Passes!
Get your FREE PASSES to SAMPE Long Beach 2016! Visit us at Booth O41 In less than two weeks, the Coastal Enterprises team will be setting up shop at SAMPE Long Beach 2016, to rub elbows with some of the country’s top-notch companies and individuals in the advanced...
Columbia University FSAE Team Car
Again another really fun project with our friends at the Columbia University FSAE team. What an impressive group of students! Check out their site here . We worked with the team engineers to create the molds for the cars body out of Precision Board HDU. The team then molded the carbon fiber panels. Once completed they sent us the panels for final finishing where our guys wrapped all of the parts in a black brushed metal vinyl. All of the logo and number decals were then created and installed. It really turned out great -Congratulations to the 2016 team and best of luck! Oh and thanks for the tie! – Steve
Making the Gear- 2016 edition
Many of you recognize the piece that first garnered us national attention. Synergy’s gear set was featured in magazines and on our supplier sites for almost a year. Our friends at Coastal Enterprises even use it as a backdrop print for their trade show booth. That gear now calls Multicam’s Grand Rapids tech center home. Since we didn’t want the Multicam tech center in Cincinnati, Ohio to feel left out, we decided to build one for their showroom as well
Fetch Sign – Woof 4
Today we are fabricating the interior frame of our sign. We are using 1″ Square steel tubing. We’ve pocket a raceway into the back of each sign panel. Peter is setting the steel pieces in place, we’ll tack weld them inside the sign for a perfect fit then take it out and complete our welds. Here it is all welded up and ready for assembly
Designing with EnRoute
Almost any time I need to design something in scale EnRoute is my program of choice. The program can handle large scales without difficulty. I’ve designed entire theme parks using it. Currently we are in the preliminary stages of designing a new project
Heavy duty steel!
We’ve been busy this week welding up the lower sections of the hull. The cutting files for the plate sections were all designed in EnRoute and cut on the MultiCam CNC plasma cutter. Even though there are many large pieces, they went together very quickly on account of the accuracy of the cuts. Three days into the assembly we are making good progress!
The Sign Invitational Retrospective ( Part 3 of 5 )
So what do you do when your the new kid on the block in a room full of the most creative sign makers in the world? Well, you sit and listen to all of them of course… That is what I did at least. I have been watching and hearing about the contestants for months, so of course, I was going to pick their brains! Only I really didn’t have to ask or pry they openly started giving tons of advice, tips and tricks right out of the gate. That’s what makes this industry great.