Carpeting raised lettering, carpet keeps lifting, what HOLDS??

[boostNbeer]

im trying to cover some door pods that are like 36" long, but have 6" tall 1/2" thick raised letters on the panel, the letters "CRX" , the problem is I cant get the **** carpet to stick down in the tucked areas around the letters, it just wont hold.

I tried using super 77, and contact cement....

How would you cover such thick letters and have the carpet hold to make tight clean looking letters?

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[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

3M industrial strength 90 may work.

Here's a link: http://www.alexgs.com/product/3m-hi-strength-90-sprayadhesive-62-4942-4930-3.html

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

PM Spy and ask him. He's the master.

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

the glue your using is either too wet when you're not spraying both sides and letting it get tacky.

 

[boostNbeer]

Well I did contact cement, I applied it to all creases and corners on the door pod of the letters, then it was pretty **** hard to get a thin thin coat on the carpet without it soaking through (it eventually did when I was pressing it into the corners)

I let it tack for 10-15 like it said on the can.... and once i pushed it down against the other surface, I was still able to pull it up and it would still pull when pressure was used to tuck into the corners and the "O" in the R letter

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

you do not apply contact cement to carpet with a brush, you apply using a spray gun. how thick is the raised material, if it's 1/4 or more you'll need to use a material that'll stretch.

 

[d-REW 10+ year member]

3m 90 is good use a heat gun to warm surface up before you apply glue.

 

[boostNbeer]

I dont have no spray gun to apply this darn contact cement, and I only need to spray like a 6 X 12" area!! lol

The letters are 1/2" thick, so there pretty tall off the backing

The carpet does stretch, its pe.com cabinet carpet. I just need a **** tight hold that wont pull up

The carpet isnt backed either so it makes soaking through very difficult

 

[boostNbeer]

I also cant get super 90 locally, only 77 is sold here

 

[d-REW 10+ year member]

there is also some stuff that i think autozone sells or use to its in a orange bottle its a headliner adhesive that stuff use to work real well havent used it in a few yrs though.

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

I dont have no spray gun to apply this darn contact cement, and I only need to spray like a 6 X 12" area!! lol
The letters are 1/2" thick, so there pretty tall off the backing

The carpet does stretch, its pe.com cabinet carpet. I just need a **** tight hold that wont pull up

The carpet isnt backed either so it makes soaking through very difficult

hate to be the barer of bad news but 1/2" thick material is gonna be impossible to stretch carpet over with out it pulling up. you should be using 1/8" or 1/4", 1/2" is wayyyy to thick. you might be able to get vinyl or suede to stretch that much but carpet just isn't.

 

[boostNbeer]

Ive seen people carpet some thick *** lettering on here, one specifically I remember was a guy that did the "DD" symbol and it was 2 thick D's overlapping and it looked perfect

Its fairly stretchy carpet, its just **** thin