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can acrylic be fixed to painted wooden surface?
Hi everyone, first time on. I am mounting 5mm white acrylic to a painted wooden surface and the client wants a clean look. As i am a relative newcomer to the sign world can i get away with double sided foam tape or does it have to be glued or screwed????? Panels are 2000 x 480 so not too big.
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Hi Steve
Double sided tape will do the job but personally I’d fix with some nice chrome domed fixings (screws) to make it look a bit more professional!
Matt
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Cheers Matty, that might be a nice touch. There are raised brushed effect dibond letters goin on too so that would look ok……Steve. 😀
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Not so sure I would be happy using VHB tape on it’s own, 5mm acrylic panels will be quite heavy at that sort of size and what do you know abouit the paintwork it’s being stuck to. Might look sound but that doesn’t always mean it is.
Cold can affect the curing time of VHB tapes as well which might cause you problems. If you don’t want any fixings showing on the front then using something like bigfoot fastenings cemented on the back would do the job and probably just as cheap if not cheaper than VHB. -
I agree with Martin. Even car number plates fall off sometimes and they’re nowhere near as heavy.
As with any adhesive, you have to know the surface of that you’re sticking to in sound in itself, and is the paint in this instance?.
As it’s not massive, and assuming the paint is sound, you could stick it on with Tigerseal. There is no chance of that letting go. But you’ll always have a risk of the paint pulling off.
I’d personally wouldn’t stick, but use a strong recognised fixing, the choice is yours which they are.
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Thanks for the input Martin…
Steve
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I have some urethane adhesive that i use for windscreen replacement (other business) but i was worried about it bonding to the plastic. Probably end up doing both tape and cover the screwed fixings…
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if you use Bighead fastenings bonded to the back then you won’t have any fixings showing on the front that need covering.
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Cheers Martin. Like i said before i am a bit of a newby to this so can you advise more on the Bighead or Bigfoot fittings…where to buy and type of cement.
Steve
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Stephen, no problem, this is a link to their site. If you contact them they will probably have some samples they could send.
http://www.bighead.co.uk/index.html
Think they do an adhesive themselves but I normally use something like penloc which you can get from here.
http://www.eurobond-adhesives.co.uk/
Worth having a look at the Eurobond website because it has info on different adhesives and what to use where.
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