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Paints and Metal Finishes for Channel
Letters
The
entire channel letter sign will be epoxy primed, then
finished with modern acrylic urethane automotive finish
coats, to insure that it continues to look good for many
years. Even though these paints and primers are five
times more expensive the long-term results are well worth
the price.
IS
PAINT QUALITY IMPORTANT TO ME? Look at the letters
at the right. The sign looked good when new, but
even the plastic has lasted longer than the paint (this
sign is only 2 years old.) What is your impression
of this business?
In fact, the same
paint is used by BMW, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, and many other
luxury automobile manufacturers to paint their cars!
Metals can be painted
with either solid color or "metallic" finishes.
The interior of the sign is painted
reflective white with Solar Finishes™ "Bright White" to increase light output
through the sign faces and even light distribution.
New paint products have been introduced which increase the
apparent light output of neon and LEDs in channel letters by 100%, but do not
affect the lifetime nor increase the energy consumption of the lighting at all.
Signs Manufacturing uses this
new Solar Finishes™ "Bright White"
paint inside every set of channel letters we produce.
Signs Manufacturing
uses Wyandotte Grip-gard, Grip-flex and Meta-flex paints
and two-part primer systems.
Wyandotte, by Akzo
Coatings, offers compatible systems of very durable, high
solid yet flexible paints specifically formulated for
applications on metals, plastics, and flexible materials.
These paints do not chip off the surface because of
heat-freeze cycles. The paints are UV stabilized to
virtually eliminate fading.
Signs
Manufacturing owns its own paint intermix system.
The system features the latest in paint mixing
technology; more sophisticated than a paint store's.
Our painters are factory-trained and certified.
An astonishing 32,807
colors can be mixed. Colors for various applications
(the metal frame and the sign face as an example) can
match. Virtually all PMS (Pantone) colors can be
closely matched.
Painting air is
cleaned and dried twice before entering the paint booth,
and again before painting.
Our
state-of-the-art paint booth, 25’ by 25’ by 16’ tall, with
full-sized entry/exit doors on each end, filters the air
coming into the booth as well as the air discharge.
(The booth even has its own built-in explosion-proof
lifting crane.)
Our painting is
virtually blemish-free.
Plastic and flexible
sign-face materials are painted translucently so that the
sign face lights in color at night.
Not all sign
companies do this!
For truly unique
signage, Signs Manufacturing is the ONLY sign company in
Texas that can finish the returns and/or back-plates on
channel letter signs (or anything else, even walls) in
ACTUAL:
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Brass
(Polished or Weathered)
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Iron
(Burnished or Rusted)
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Pewter
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Bronze
(Polished or Weathered)
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Copper
(Polished or Patina)
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Nickel-Silver
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Stainless
Steel (Polished or Satin)
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Smoked
Chrome
Or other exotic
metals.

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