Nothing spectacular but I thought it may interest some of you.

How to apply stubborn 4mm vinyl to an plywood edge:

The vinyl comes in a roll of 50'. The problem with this material is, that it always tries to curl up. Therefore you have to work with a few tricks.

1. I cut the pieces about 5" longer then needed
2. Screwed it down on a scrap piece with a screw on each end.
3. Applied the water based, non-toxic contact cement on both surfaces
4. Let dry for an hour
5. Because those strips were 70" long, I couldn't apply them without help.
6. Rigged up some "spacers" in form of some quick grip clamps.
7. Put the edge on top of the clamps. They also prevented the edge from sliding of the side!
8. Now push the edge down inch by inch. No room for mistakes. Both pieces will bond on contact!
9. Because of the 4mm thickness, it wasn't enough to just use the laminate roller. A rubber mallet did the trick!
10. Trim off the ends with the Fein Multimaster
11. With a perfectly dialed in MFK700 I was able to trim the edge perfectly flush without scratching the pre finished ply! No idea how else I could have done that task.

Anyhow, I hope that one day this information will be helpful to someone!

Cheers,
Andreas

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Hi,

Pretty slick. I am curious about the 4mm vinyle edging? I havn't seen that before.


Seth

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4mm? Looks like 3mm pvc to me.

Mirko

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Well, make it into 3mm then

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