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Title: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: justinjstark on October 29, 2010, 01:51:25 pm

What kind of glue do you guys use to attach your marquee retainers?  On my previous arcade, I tried epoxy, gorilla glue and super glue and they all peeled right off of the PVC (?) retainer.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: saint on October 29, 2010, 02:02:02 pm

Screws. Not glue. Among other things you want your retainers removable for maintenance of the marquee light.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: justinjstark on October 29, 2010, 02:18:28 pm

Quote from: saint on October 29, 2010, 02:02:02 pm

Screws. Not glue. Among other things you want your retainers removable for maintenance of the marquee light.

Good point but I do not want visible screws.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: saint on October 29, 2010, 02:42:34 pm

Small flat-head black screws will be essentially invisible. I've never seen any retainers held on by glue before. If you glue them how will you change the marquee light or clean dust from the inside of the marquee?

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: justinjstark on October 29, 2010, 04:27:46 pm

Quote from: saint on October 29, 2010, 02:42:34 pm

Small flat-head black screws will be essentially invisible. I've never seen any retainers held on by glue before. If you glue them how will you change the marquee light or clean dust from the inside of the marquee?

Hmmm.  I will have to experiment and see how it looks.

I'll most likely be doing white trim.  I'll see if I can find some screw caps or something.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: leapinlew on October 29, 2010, 04:56:36 pm

Use gorilla glue, and use a lot of it. I used a gallon to hold on just the top retainer.

When the light bulb burns out, I just build a new cab.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: jly on October 30, 2010, 10:29:11 pm

Hot melt glue.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: justinjstark on October 30, 2010, 11:43:29 pm

I have come up with a few ideas for retainers using t-molding.  I'm going to put some things together this week (I think I have some t-molding around) if I have time and test them out.  If it doesn't work I will probably use window molding and find a way to discretely screw it on.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: SavannahLion on October 31, 2010, 02:57:25 am

Try this:

Very carefully mount several magnets into the wood where the marquee retainer goes. A metal retainer will "clip" into place quite nicely and should remain in place from pure friction. I've seen 4'x4' wall panels held in place with just four magnets. This won't stop someone who is determined to open this up however. Plus the mounting material needs to be thick enough to accept the magnets.

Title: Re: Marquee retainer glue
Post by: Cleverone on November 01, 2010, 06:29:51 pm

Quote from: leapinlew on October 29, 2010, 04:56:36 pm

Use gorilla glue, and use a lot of it. I used a gallon to hold on just the top retainer.

When the light bulb burns out, I just build a new cab.

Great one.