[Zmagnette] Carpet adhesive & maybe a trick?

[Steve]

David--

At the rather realistic risk of once again putting my foot right into it, 
let me proffer this.  However, no doubt you and the entire rest of the 
esteemed group already knew this, starting back in 1937.

Oh well, here goes:  It might be that your problem isn't the adhesive, but 
"shaping" the carpet around and into corners, curves, convex and concave 
areas, and other tricky spots?  Probably lays down fine in the flat?  What 
someone told me, and I've used it ever since, with good success, is to find 
an old steam iron that still makes steam.  Heat 'er up.  Now, get a nice 
ol', clean towel, and fold it maybe in half (or more, if it’s a crappy 
towel!)  Try this a couple of times on a practice piece of cut-off carpet 
before you go launching into the most visible part of your job.  So, with 
the ol' towel on top of area needing "coercion" , hit the area with some 
steam.  Depending on how good of an old iron you have, how hot you have it 
set, blah, blah, blah, you'll see pretty quickly that the carpet becomes 
like a big ol' piece of lasagna, and you can bend it, curve it, etc.  Just 
play around with the settings, how close you hold it, how long, etc.  Do 
NOT, I repeat do NOT, put the iron directly onto the carpet.  Ask me how I 
know.  Fortunately, an ash try covers that spot.  A future owner may 
consider it some sort of trademark or copyright!  This does not hurt the 
carpet.  Cruise by about any upholstery shop, and you'll see them doing the 
same thing, but with something fancier than an ol' steam iron.

Some of my more sophisticated friends have suggested a wallpaper "removing" 
steam tool, but I'm too cheap.

Good Luck, and may the Steam be with you.

#2SteveK



-----Original Message----- 
From: David F. Darby
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 9:18 PM
To: 'List for the Z Magnette Group - North America'
Subject: Re: [Zmagnette] Slightly OT-Carpet adhesive

Thanks for the tips on adhesives. I've been fussing around with the carpet,
and I definitely need a repositionable adhesive; something not too
aggressive. It lays really well in some areas, not so well in others. I'm
thinking I might not glue it where it has the backing pad attached, but will
try to stick the edges and where it climbs in and out of wells and over the
trans/propshaft hump.

I haven't re-carpeted the Magnette, but it will be very similar to this
exercise.

David

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Fletcher Millmore
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 5:51 PM
To: List for the Z Magnette Group - North America
Subject: Re: [Zmagnette] Slightly OT-Carpet adhesive

Contact cement is forever! Not what you really want for carpets that are
sometimes necessarily removed.

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