8. Signs secured and ready for the trip to their new home.
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days a week and are rolled out each Sunday morning in time for services.
We applied a special color latex paint to both the carts and the frames using a one-inch angular brush. Once they had dried, we installed the sign boards into the frames and added the second set of retainers, which we secured with our pneumatic finishing nail gun. The final step was to add a heavyduty cabinet handle to the front of each cart; this would make it easy to move the sign frames in and out. We discarded the small screws that came with the handles and replaced them with 1/4-inch lag bolts. Now they would never fall off! For the two-mile trip from our shop to the chuch, we placed the two signs on our trailer and secured them with poly foam sheets and ratchet tie downs. (Note: These held the signs extremely well.) When we arrived, we lowered the ramp to the trailer and rolled the signs off and onto the parking lot. The signs are stored six days a week, and on Sundays, around six-thirty in the morning, they make their appearance in their appointed place of service. Come twelve-thirty in the afternoon, they are returned to their storage spot. This was a nice project and a somewhat challenging one—but the end-result was a success. signshop.com
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