Garland Gray II wrote:
As Glenn mentions, vinyl backed by open cell foam falls off because of
breakdown of the foam, largely a function of heat.
I replaced all such material with a closed cell foam material that
looked quite good, and after seeing how liquid contact cement started
to dissolve the material, as well as the strong fumes, I found a
liquid water base contact cement made by 3M. It can be found at auto
parts stores--NAPA, CarQuest--and while it may cost 2 1/2 times as
much as the regular contact cement you'd find in hardware store, I
found it to have maybe 2 times the coverage.
I had previously tried spray advesive, and while the coating was not
heavy enough to damage the foam, I wasn't really satisfied with it or
the price of how much it would take for a big job. And it also had
the problem of fumes. "cvj" wrote in message
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Could someone advise me of an adhesive to attach a foam-backed Vinyl
Headliner to a plywood sheet? I am looking for something that is
easy to apply (spray can?) but at the same time does not damage the
foam through some kind of chemical inter-action.

Thanks in advance

Claus

I should have said in my earlier post that the problem lies with the foam,
rather than the adhesive, and using this 3M water based product is possibly
similar to the floor-tile adhesive I mentioned, which is also cheap compared
to an aerosol adhesive, and readily available.

You really need to be able to move the material once you have laid it on to
the plywood, to remove bubbles and re-position for bad alignment.

Contact adhesives make this quite difficult, even the ones which claim to be
slow-curing.

Dennis.

I think that is what made the regular--solvent base ?-- contact cement start
to dissolve the vinyl.
I needed to position the material before the contact cement was "ready" so I
could move if necessary. Therefore some of the solvent was still present to
attack the vinyl.
With the water based cement, this didn't cause a problem.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
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You really need to be able to move the material once you have laid it on
to
the plywood, to remove bubbles and re-position for bad alignment.

Contact adhesives make this quite difficult, even the ones which claim to
be
slow-curing.

Dennis.