Topic: Attaching Fabric

Our car requires a pimp hat.  We're looking at some sweet hot pink 2.5" knap faux fur.

Can anyone share some previously successful, tech-passing methods for attaching fabric to bodywork?

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Re: Attaching Fabric

Tech just cares that it will not blow off during the race and cause an issue.  Have you tried the fabric spray glue they use for headliners?  Or maybe even tile adhesive?

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Re: Attaching Fabric

Carpet glue works.

Re: Attaching Fabric

Fender washers and self tapping screws.

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5 (edited by JMo 2017-03-07 04:44 PM)

Re: Attaching Fabric

3M super77 spray adhesive. I've had fabric attached to my car with this since 2010. good idea to wrap it around leading edges of panels to keep it from peeling off

John

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Re: Attaching Fabric

We used Gorilla Glue and it worked great.

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Re: Attaching Fabric

E6000.  That sh!t sticks to everything.  Clear works well, the black industrial stuff really never comes off.  Just don't get it on you.

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Re: Attaching Fabric

Also, this stuff purports to be pretty good:

http://www.stewartsystems.aero/products … ment-quart

Tunachuckers: 15 Years of Effluency
'08 - '10: 1966 Volvo 122, "Charlie"
'10 - '18: 1975 Ford LTD Landau --> 2018 - current: Converted into 1950 "Plymford"
'22 - current: 1967 Volvo 122, "Charlie ]["

Re: Attaching Fabric

If you want to kill any questions from TEO as to whether it's "good enough", use Ekobond E610. Non-flammable, non-hazardous, and people use it to apply cloth skin to certified aircraft. You can buy it from Aircraft Spruce. Service life is often over a decade so you might find yourself cutting sheet metal just to get that fur off.

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