Does this exist?

[TheGameAh]

Hey guys. I checked out Home Depot and Lowe's website, and couldn't find anything that matches what I'm looking for.

I can't find new machine head screws to hold my metal rails for my marquee in place.  So I thought I'd use magnet.  I though maybe they had a magnet strip with sticky back that you could use.  I'd just stick the magnet strip/tape/whatever you call it, onto the wood, put the marquee up, and the metal rails would be held into place by the magnet.  Does a magnet strip with sticky back exist?

[gndprx]

Yup.  You should find it at Lowes or Home Depot.  Usually it's buy the picture hanger stuff.

Magnetic Tape would be the exact product description

[Tiger-Heli]

Hey guys. I checked out Home Depot and Lowe's website, and couldn't find anything that matches what I'm looking for.

I can't find new machine head screws to hold my metal rails for my marquee in place.  So I thought I'd use magnet.  I though maybe they had a magnet strip with sticky back that you could use.  I'd just stick the magnet strip/tape/whatever you call it, onto the wood, put the marquee up, and the metal rails would be held into place by the magnet.  Does a magnet strip with sticky back exist?

I'm sure it does, but don't know where you would find it.

An alternative would be to get those refrigerator magnets used for advertising, cut them up and glue them to your cab, but they might not have the strength to hold your marquee up.

Another alternative would be the strong magnet strips that they probably have in the tools section for holding wrenches to the walls and such.

[ErikRuud]

Go to Radio Shack.

Normally I don't recomend them, but they have "Rare Earth" magnets.  hese tiny little suckers are strong.  Buy a few pairs and epoxy them in place.

[Hoagie_one]

Or use stick on velcro strips

[Spaced Invader]

I've seen the stuff at Walmart.

or here...

http://www.4onlineart.com/Sewing-Notions/s_23558.html

[Aceldamor]

I wouldn't suggest the refrig magnets. Though they seem strong, they usually don't hold anything but paper or pictures. I'm not sure that they would be strong enough to hold 1 or possibly 2 pieces of plexi or glass in place.

[grafixmonkey]

I wouldn't suggest the refrig magnets. Though they seem strong, they usually don't hold anything but paper or pictures. I'm not sure that they would be strong enough to hold 1 or possibly 2 pieces of plexi or glass in place.

They wouldn't.  They're also not usually very consistent in the orientation of their fields.   I think you'd have difficulty getting them to work together.

Rare earth magnets are awesome.  If you stuck 6 or so of those around your marquee, you wouldn't even need magnets on the other side - a strip of any metal that's attracted to them will hold them up.

Velcro sounds pretty good to me too.  Just think, you could pick a new marquee every month!

[TheGameAh]

I've probably velcroed half my cabinet together.  It's amazing I didn't think of velcro earlier     I'll probably use that.

[TheTick]

I've probably velcroed half my cabinet together.  It's amazing I didn't think of velcro earlier     I'll probably use that.

That must make moving it pretty easy. Just rip the monitor and control panel off, and it fits thru the door without a problem  

[grafixmonkey]

haha...   I can just see the joystick coming off in your hand in the middle of a game, and you sticking the velcro back together and going back at it...    

[TheGameAh]

I've velcroed the volume control in place, the bezel, the control panel, the IPAC, the power strip.  I'll probably end up velcroing the runners for the plexiglass as well.

[Spaced Invader]

All that velcro and you didn't think of velcro...hmm...maybe we were seperated at birth.