It took a while to get done actually, but once it was finished, I had the parts trucked to the new shop, and staffer Lee-san and I began the difficult installation job. Here we are bolting the bottom half into position:

We stationed people below to keep pedestrians away - dropping a wrench on somebody's head would put a quick finish to our entire business! With the first section tightly in place, we hoisted up the top half ...

Being bolted to the balcony (which is iron, not aluminum) is certainly not enough support, so we anchored the top directly to the concrete wall.

Here's Lee-san driving in an anchor bolt ...

After it was all secure, we wrapped the bare metal with stiff foam tubes (the kind used to insulate water pipes):

We then brought out the rolled-up sign, draped it over the frame, and began 'sewing'. It wasn't easy, and we made a couple of false starts, getting it slightly crooked, not much, but bad enough to be visible from the street.

After we got it basically in position, and straight, Lee-san then put on a safety belt and headed 'out' to do the final tying of the lower portion ... By this time it was getting dark, but the streetlights here are very bright, and we could continue working.

Tada!

Now that it's up, it seems to look a lot smaller than we had expected, but as this was the largest size that the fabric printing companies we investigated could make (at least in our price range), it'll have to do for now ...

And we have no more excuses, and no more reasons to delay. We're not ready to open yet, but we'll never be 'ready'. So next weekend it is ... November 1st. Ready or not, here we come!