Economical Marquee holder!

[RayB]

Welp, I found a fairly low-cost alternative to "real" marquee brackets.

I was at Rona, which is a Canadian chain exactly like Home Depot, and in the "do it yourself screen window" aisle, there were these long plastic (or vinyl?) strips that are shaped like this:



*Note: The green lines I drew in cuz the flash washed out the detail. The green lines show the shape of this part.

The long part is about an inch wide. Then there's a channel just perfectly sized for a marquee's thickness, and then there's a short "front". On the very back , you can see a little "lip". This lip will be nailed to the wood panels with very small nails, or a staple gun.

These are not as solid as steel brackets, but the beauty here is they are flexible, so if your top panels on your cabinet are a little angled like mine, then the marquee will still sit straight since it flexes a bit.

The plastic is light enough to cut to size very easily, and you can buy this spray paint that adheres to plastic to color this as you need.

And here is the best part: $2.39cdn for 8 feet of this! That's about $1.79 us!

~Ray B.

[Apollo]

Another option and one I used on my cab.....black filebinders.

[MAME nut]

What are "black filebinders" ? ? ? ?

[Apollo]

They are used to bind paper in to files. It's basically a U shaped length of plastic that pages are inserted in to. I found it perfect for 2 pieces of plexi and a marquee.

[NoOne=NBA=]

I just used cabinet magnets on the back of mine, and then glued wood strips around the border of it.

That makes it really easy to get back off, at such time as I need to change light bulbs, or something.

[RayB]

But does it look authentic?

[Knoxximus]

They are used to bind paper in to files. It's basically a U shaped length of plastic that pages are inserted in to. I found it perfect for 2 pieces of plexi and a marquee.

You're talking about those things where you shove the paper width-wise into the U-bracket thingy once you have them wrapped in the transparent plastic?  Like for essays or book reports?

[paigeoliver]

But does it look authentic?

Authentic to what?

I have seen at least a dozen different marquee mounting schemes on original cabinets.

[NoOne=NBA=]

Did anyone else find it really funny that right below the "Does it look authentic?" question is a picture of top fire button balltops?

Here's a picture--decide for yourselves.