Fetch Sign Install

The old sign is down.  It took about an hour and a half to get our steel bracket system installed and everything went together nicely.  Best of luck Adam with your new sign – See you at Fetch! – Steve

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Fetch Sign – Woof 6 (the final Woof)

It’s our last day with the Fetch Sign – we are finishing up the details and doing the final assembly. All the parts are painted so Peter now has to complete the pins and glue all of the elements in place – I’ll do a little welding and we should be done.

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273 274 281 293 294We really want to make the collar ring look as real as possible so we shaped a 4′ length of  steel rod inserted into the hole in the dog tag and welded a plate on it so we could easily secure it to the structure.  We ran a bolt through the top of the sign to hold it in place.

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Here she is – Ready to hang!

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It’s time for dinner. Hmm where should I go…..

-Steve

 

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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.

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IMG_3979 The foam parts are lightly sanded and we brush on a thick HDU primer. Two coats of the primer then paint.

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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

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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.

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Fetch Sign – Woof 3

Now it’s time to cut the elements that make up the face of the sign.

126The first element is the 3D bone which will have the Fetch name contour pocketed about an 1/8″ into the surface. Our rendering shows the layout and depth of the lettering.

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The bone is also carved out of 2″ HDU.

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We’ll then inset painted aluminum letters into that pocket for a real nice effect. This will allow us to easily have a different paint finishes on the bone and the letters.

We are cutting the “tag” face out of .063 aluminum.  The text will then be cut out of the aluminum – when glued in place we’ll see the background color of the sign panel come through.

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And here it is! almost done – next is onto the welding of the frame and mounting system.

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