Is VHB tape OK for fixing acrylic lettering?

[Gareth Hankinson]

We do it quite often for smaller letters and never had any fall off actually installing a pan tomorrow using vhb tape to acrylic and dibond letters.

[Warren Beard]

I had a failure once, make sure you scuff the back of the letters and the paint it is being adhered to to be safe, I never used to scuff but now I always do after that. It only takes one failure and you’ll learn 😉

[Jonathan Dray]

Cheers guys.

Is there a more fail proof method? Some kind of 2 part glue or similar?

Some of the letters will be 250mm high.

[Derek Heron]

make sure its vhb tape for the job many different types
i think its a company called indasol we use very helpfull and will send you samples to try out

derek

[Sam Armstrong]

You have to ensure that the back of the letter and the material you are adhering to are both prepped correctly as can be a common cause of failure that the letter is thought of but not the surface being bonded to. You need a product vhb tape as an example that will expand and contract where as some adhesives simply won’t withstand the temp range and will crack and fail in a short space of time.

Speak to Innova Solutions, really helpful guys who know there products.

[Derek Heron]

quote Derek Heron:

make sure its vhb tape for the job many different types
i think its a company called indasol we use very helpfull and will send you samples to try out

derek

😳

thats the one sam innova solutions
thanks for the reminder

derek

[Sam Armstrong]

Glenn and Spencer are always really helpful and have assisted us on a few awkward jobs.

01282 867390

[Gert du Preez]

For flat mount perspex letters (and a few other things 😀 ) I use Power Bond made by Wurth. Expensive (about 60 odd GBP per tube) in our part of the world, but it sticks like crazy, and it stays like that for years. Some cheaper adhesives eventually harden too much, leading to failures.

VHB? Hell, that stuff is used to stick on double glazed windows, so methinks a perspex letter is no worries