My sister-in-law says, "If you can't get it at Wal-Mart, you don't need it!"
Bob
>Pat and list,
>To make new door skins for my Bugeye, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a
couple
>of yards of vinyl (black). I think it was $2 or $3 a yard. (Now, can I
>please be granted official membership to the we tight club?) I held it up
to
>the door and cut it with ordinary scissors to cover the inside of the door
>and the door pockets. I used something else at Wal-Mart to stick the stuff
>down. It was called household glue. It was with the paints, sandpaper,
>caulking, and adhesive stuff. It cost a couple of bucks per tube and was
>basically like clear caulking (no heavy glue smell and the same
>"I-can-come-off-fairly-easily-if-you-really-need-me-to-without-falling-off-
too-easily"
>consistency). It gave great results in the summertime (didn't set too
>quickly and allowed me to reposition slightly as I needed to), not sure how
>easy it will be to work with in the winter, but then you can always use it
>in your sate-of-the-art heated shop that each member of the list has. I
>went back a month or so later when I was doing some more stuff and had run
>out of adhesive and got some that was a little cheaper. I don't remember
>what this stuff was called, but it stunk (in both ways). It set too
quickly
>and left stringy residue everywhere and smelled horribly (good thing the
>Sprite doesn't qualify as an "enclosed" area). Hope that helps.
>Ryan
>
>
>>From: SAUTHOFF PATRICIA JEAN <Patricia.Sauthoff@Colorado.EDU>
>>Reply-To: SAUTHOFF PATRICIA JEAN <Patricia.Sauthoff@Colorado.EDU>
>>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>>Subject: sticky stuff
>>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:42:37 -0700 (MST)
>>
>>I've finally gotten around to cutting the vinyl to recover a console and
>>was wondering what kind of adhesive would work best on vinyl to metal. I
>>had another question for you all, but it's left me right now... oh well.
>>
>>Patricia
>>"59 Bugeye
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