Best way to mount unframed marquees on the wall?

Les Manley

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Going to be mounting a few marquees on the wall. They are not framed. A couple are hard plexi and a couple are flexible. Anyone have any great ideas on what to use? I was thinking possibly the little clips that are used to mount bathroom mirrors. Probably wouldn't work as well with the flexible marquees. I would rather not damage the marquees...or the wall...with more permanent adhesives. Just wondering what have others used that they liked?
 
you can use the rosettes that hold the bathroom mirror on. if they are flexible, just make a marquee sandwich with two slices of plexi on each side.
 
This is how I displayed mine thanks to some idea's from a few of the locals.



I secured a few of the non hard plastic/translite/glass ones with a few clear thumb tacs, being careful not to damage the marquees in any way (as i have 2 ceiling fans and a high powered fan that run 99% of the time)
 
I have over 100 marquees hanging in my game room -- all hung using the Command Strips. Work great -- never had any issues with wall damage or damage to the marquees themselves. For example, my Stratovox marquee is flaking like crazy but the strips have not caused any additional damage. Also, no trouble as far as weight goes -- for example, my heavy Tron marquee has been hanging for a couple years now -- though I am using about 4 strips.

Just my 2 cents...
 
I have had tons of problems with the command strips. My wife decided to hang my marquees when I was out of town as a surprise for me and I had to hide how upset I was when I got home. Painted glass, such as most older marquees were fine when I pulled them down. However, hard plastic marquees from the Jamma era were not so lucky. I'd say about 1 out of 4 was damaged when removing the adhesive.
 
I have had tons of problems with the command strips. My wife decided to hang my marquees when I was out of town as a surprise for me and I had to hide how upset I was when I got home. Painted glass, such as most older marquees were fine when I pulled them down. However, hard plastic marquees from the Jamma era were not so lucky. I'd say about 1 out of 4 was damaged when removing the adhesive.

Good info to know - thanks. I guess "your mileage may vary"...
 
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Mirror mounting clips...
Home Depot... comes with 4... I use 3 per marquee... 2 bottom one top.
 
I have dozens of marquees hanging up. I use Fast Frames by Weber. They consist of 4 small pieces of plastic that slide over the corners and one piece of string to tie them all together. You can hang them up at one point where the strings intersect in the middle. I tried to upload a photo but I'm getting a server error.

This is the only place where I've been able to find them:
http://www.misterart.com/framing/fr...ber-fast-frame-adjustable-4-corner-frame.html
 
if you want to get super fancy, measure out the L x H and go to www.framesbymail.com . You can get metal frames to enclose the marquee and hang them as you would a framed picture... maybe figure out to backlite them too? FBM does custom cuts of all frames to any size andare sent out unassembled (easy to build), which makes the prices very reasonable. This was something that we're thinking about doing at Rusty Quarters Arcade since we had someone donate 30 old glass game marquees.
 
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I use "Command Brand Picture Hanging Strips."
I've mounted many marquees on the walls with no issues, and I love how they haven't damaged the screen.
 
Attachments are working now. See photos of Fast Frame I mentioned above.
 

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When I had marquees hanging up years ago, I thought about the mirror clip route, but if you a number of marquees, that will get pretty costly pretty quick.

I would never recommend any sort of an adhesive. It may hold it on the wall well for awhile, but when you take them down and want to remove it, you risk damaging the paint.

What I did was to use plain old finishing nails. I would hammer in two for the bottom and give them a slight bend upwards. I'd let the marquee rest on them and then hammer in two more for the top and give them a slight bend downwards. They were solid in the wall and with the slight bends, they held the marquees solid to the wall. The best part is that a box of finishing nails is quite inexpensive. I also used beige ones that looked nice and were almost invisible on the walls.
 
1) if on a bulk head, get a clear L-shaped corner guard meant to protect the lower 4' of corners on sheetrock from being damaged. Art shows through, screw up through bottom of bulkhead.

http://www.menards.com/main/paint/p...-corner-guard-with-nails/p-1503920-c-8166.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Lexan-Corner-Guard-434-Clear/dp/B002MFUACO


2) If on flat surface, get white J channel trim meant to seal paneling edges. Screw bottom on before sliding marquees in, then use a dab of the command strip stuff to keep their tops in place. No chance of falling then, channel holds the weight.

http://www.menards.com/main/paint/p...splash-panels/acp-fasade-j-trim/p-1470772.htm
 

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