Glue - mylar to a painted surface

[ShinAce]

I have a wood panel that has been painted with a cheap chrome spray paint, which is ugly but would have a nice effect. I have purchased metallized mylar to but over it.

I tested a corner by putting contact cement on it, the mylar holds up to the glue but it eats through the paint. I can't find the 3m spray adhesive locally; I'm in Ottawa, Ontario.

What should I do to glue the mylar on as flat as possible.

[alexandro98]

Ok, this is oddly one thing i have experience with, mylar and glue.
I used the 3M spray adheshive and it worked out ok,
HOWEVER the problem I had was its IMPOSSIBLE to keep a huge piece of mylar from wrinkling.  I had help while doing this ( i was glueing a piece over a 100in x 80in ) and the glue held, but wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles.  So I have no idea what look the cheap chorme paint looks like but the the mylar just was impossible to keep from wrinkling and it looked horibble.
The only way I can see this working is if you use a thicker piece of mylar, but thicker mylar = more money.  Im not sure what mil you have, but I used 1mil, basically the cheap stuff you can buy from a hydroponics store.
I know a guy online that tried what I did with aluminum foil and he had a ton of wrinkles too, and aluminum foil is a lot more thicker than my 1mil mylar.
I dont have a pic of my mylar, but here is a pic of online friend with his aluminum foil.

[ShinAce]

I was hoping I could avoid a 2 step process, but your pic says otherwise.

It's your basic thin mylar film, as growers would use, and I got it from an arts supply store.

Now I'm thinking I'll glue the mylar to some thin cardboard and then set the cardboard to the painted surface. At least this way, if it wrinkles on the cardboard, I can bow it inwards while the glue sets, and then when I flatten it out, it'll lessen the wrinkles.

Contact cement does hold the mylar, but it can't be spread reasonably, so it gives an ugly bubbly look.

If only this box didn't have so much vibration, I could attach a mirror.

Also, my Mylar is a straight film, no grid at all. If you were to put it between 2 pieces of glass, you would swear it was a real mirror.

[alexandro98]

All I got left to say is, Good Luck!! 

[ShinAce]

Thanks Alexandro, cuz so far success has been illusive.