Anyone bought 3M woodgrain vinyl from Happ lately?

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So, the woodgrain laminate on my Missile Command cabaret has started popping up around the edges, and some bubbles away from the edge, although I used contact cement and did it by the book. I think the laminate was just old and warpy or something. It will have to come off.

I also plan on doing a BZ cabaret and my Atari Football cabinet, so need a source for woodgrain vinyl. I'd like the Football vinyl to be reddish so that a close match, but the BZ and MC do not have to be so close.

I see that Happ has 3M Di-Noc woodgrain vinyl for sale-

http://na.suzohapp.com/accessories/ca421.htm

Has anyone ordered this from Happ and more importantly, has anyone had a good experience with the product? Is it close in texture? Will it adhere well for this application?

Thanks for any help on this..
 
I THINK this is the crap I am seeing applied to some of my games at work that are coming from overseas....I had 2 Andamiro games and a Sega game that had it while I was at CEC in Houston. If it is the same stuff, it is junk. Either that or it wasnt applied properly. If this is the same stuff, I was not impressed by it. I would just go with woodgrain vinyl. Plus the 1000 dollar training class is a little cost prohibitive.

I had an instance where a kid somehow got a chip to lift...then other kids peeled it...etc til I had a huge chunk missing. I then decided to remove it (which was a MAJOR P.I.T.A especially on the edges) and just painted the whole part instead. Never had to mess with it again. On other games i had to use aluminum angle iron to secure the jagged edges and cover it up to prevent future peeling in those spots

Makes a guy miss formica or high quality vinyl....

Josh
 
I'd get some vinyl laminate from Home Depot. It's readily available and installs easily. It comes in 48x80 rolls for about $50 IIRC, and is a special order. Can of contact cement and a rolling pin to apply, use a router to trim the excess.
 
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