RE: Adhesive for control panel overlays?

I've had good luck with 3M #77 Spray Adhesive. My local autobody shop
stocks it. I think Home Depot type stores should carry it also. Just
test it on a sample piece first, it does melt some plastic/vinyl
materials.

-t-

--- Ray Ghanbari <ray@ghanbari.com> wrote:
>
> Contact cement is always good. However, remember that if you have
> crappy
> adhesive on your vinyl, then your really good adhesive will stick to the
> crappy adhesive, and the crappy adhesive will come off the vinyl.
>
> What I did with my cabinet is use think formica (from the hardware
> store).
> Basically indestructable (same stuff your kitchen counters are coated
> with)
> and hard bonded to plywood with contact cement.
>
> You'll need a router and a trim bit, but *extremely* durable (in fact,
> my
> entire universal cabinet is coated with black formica...very nice)
>
> Ray
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rasterlist@synthcom.com
> > [mailto:owner-rasterlist@synthcom.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:09 PM
> > To: rasterlist@synthcom.com
> > Subject: RASTER: Adhesive for control panel overlays?
> >
> >
> > I have had trouble finding a control panel overlay that I liked for my
> > cabinet (generic CPOs tend to be pretty garish), so I just ended up
> buying
> > some black vinyl (the type that is used for covering the sides of
> > cabinets).
> > I think this will be durable enough for my needs, but I'm
> > concerned that the
> > adhesive isn't strong enough (it's nowhere near as sticky as the
> adhesive
> > that was on the Tempest repro CPO I bought a few months back) - who
> knows
> > how this stuff actually stays on the side of people's cabs...
> >
> > I think I'll need to apply some of my own adhesive - does anyone have
> any
> > recommendations?
> >
> > Drew
> >
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