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Re: Pegasus neon

Posted By: SVP Neon Equipment
Date: Friday, 27 July 2012, at 11:19 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Pegasus neon (Chris.oh)


Sounds like it will be a nice sign when finished. Post a picture if you get a chance.

If a diamond coated hole saw was used and they had water running over it while drilling, cutting the holes in the porcelain is doable. It's the same method used for cutting holes in flat glass. Just go slow and easy.

> This particular sign does have housing
> holes. It also has a couple of surface
> jumps. The sign came to the shop with peanut
> housings, electronic transformers which seem
> to be about 12 years old or so, and a number
> is spring tube supports. My initial reaction
> was that the sign may have been a shoe-box
> style, and had been "updated" with
> new wiring. This initial thought was due to
> the scary thought of someone trying to drill
> a housing hole through porcelain finish.

> Since my post, I have opened it up, and can
> see that it does have key-holed brackets on
> the inside, and that one of the housings is
> located directly on top of a shadow of an
> internal piece of framework, which had been
> intentionally removed (broken welds are
> visible). I am not sure how they managed to
> drill a clean hole through the finish, some
> are a little chipped, but not nowhere near
> what I would expect for a retro-fit through
> porcelain.

> Thanks for your input Mark! As I said, I
> have found a dozen or so neon fit ones
> online with the three inch returns, but no
> two of them "match" as far as I
> can tell.

> All things considered, it will be a nice
> sign once I'm done fixing it, boxing the
> back in for strength, and cleaning it. It
> even has a little animation in the wings.
> The customer is happy with it, even with my
> having to tell him it's not 100% authentic.


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