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  what adhesive is best to glue dibond & foamex together?

  Posted by Darryl Seager on 3 May 2005 at 08:06

  Can anyone recommend an adhesive that could be used to bond Dibond to Foamex, so as to make a rigid lightweight board? This would ultimately be used as a suspended swing sign.
  regards

  Darryl

  Peter Normington replied 20 years, 3 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
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  Kev Mayger

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 10:27

  We use Tesa double sided tape for exactly for that application

  KM

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  Jill Marie Welsh

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 10:39

  Gorilla Glue.
  Just be careful to use sparingly and smooth it out well cuz it GROWS,
  but man does it hold.
  Love….Jill

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  Westcoast Sign Guy

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 15:18

  I’d use a double sided tape. We have a 4 foot and 2 foot width roll that we use for laminated aluminum and acrylic and just about anything else.

  

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  Mike Grant

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 19:21

  Am I losing the plot here????

  Surly just the Dibond would suffice unless you can clarify your reason to marry the two substrates together????? (?) (?) (?)

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  Peter Normington

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 21:40

  Mike,
  I would think that the dibond is the substrata and the foamex, is for mounted letters, Problem is, swing signs actually need to be heavy, otherwise they blow around to much.
  Peter

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  Darryl Seager

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 21:46

  Almost got it Peter, it was a case of incorporating the foamex to add some ‘weight’.
  to overcome the inherent problems, i had a blank fabricated from GRP and used that.
  Darryl

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  Peter Normington

  Member

  20 June 2005 at 21:52

  Didnt know it was a quiz darryl!
  Next time I’ll ask the audience
  Peter

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