[retroooo]

There's a site on Yahoo where some guy creates light weight RV cabinets with this stuff. Builds his cabinets with pink foam insulation board, adds thin fiberglass mesh, then spreads this stuff on it. Says it works but I haven't tried it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucf2FVIdr1Q

That's Jed from Into the Mystery and he tried to make his own foam cabinets but they turned out kind of crap so he wound up redoing them with plywood. Guess there's some skill and learning to that process.

 

[Mobileempire]

There's a site on Yahoo where some guy creates light weight RV cabinets with this stuff. Builds his cabinets with pink foam insulation board, adds thin fiberglass mesh, then spreads this stuff on it. Says it works but I haven't tried it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucf2FVIdr1Q

I made some of those cabinets , it was very expensive and time consuming , you need to keep going back to the store for more gripper paint and in the end they don't look so great .
You can make them look good bout a whole lot more work then say wood.
One cool thing though is that I was able to lay fiberglass over the gripper paint , I don't think I
could've layer fiberglass directly on to pink rigid foam boards , I'm thinking the fiberglass would
eat into the foam , I'm not sure and hav'n't had the time to experiment.
I do love my cabinets but I wouldn't do it again.
Also home improvement stores sales primer paint to glue down floor tiles , I bought some and it failed after about a year , I've been reglueing with the Amazing goop ,holds up to heat and cold over time .

 

[feintly]

This Gripper stuff sounds too good to be true. I have the same concerns others have voiced in terms of long-term performance. This thread started around a year ago. Has anyone had any continuing experience with it over that time? Or found out anything new about it? Thanks. -- David

seconded

 

[Mike Haven]

It's been a few years, how's it holding up?

 

[kc8flb]

But does it hold a man suspended in mid-air?

https://youtu.be/PK9E4LXYOHw

 

[perchancetodream]

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"

 

[stockrex]

Grooooooooooooooooovy baby!
lol, thanks for thinking outside the box.
I am buying a gallon for misc items around the house and van

 

[GROOVY2]

things that were glued with Gripper are still in place -
No squeaks- No Movement - nothing falling down -

I would use Gripper again - on foam and Thinsulate -

Really Paint is glue with color added -

 

[sportcoupe]

Gripper on Thinsulate instead of 3m 90? Interesting.

Looks like you lightly brush it on the van and the Thinsulate, wait till tacky and stick together?

 

[GROOVY2]

I cut thinsulate to size then paint Gripper on van wall
push thinsulate in place let dry

OR

put thinsulate in place -
then using Squirt bottle
squirt slightly thinned Gripper High up on van
wall and let run down wall - push thinsulate in place

Both techniques worked well -

I used 3M #90 to glue thinsulate in place over cab headliner -
worked well there -
used Gripper everywhere else to install thinsulate-

Gripper works Real good on layers of ridged foam -

also used Great Stuff to glue Ridged foam in place on ceiling -

all worked well -

 

[theoldwizard1]

Glidden was bought out awhile ago and what is called Gripper is not the same formulation. Anyone found another paint/primer that works as well for this ?

 

[surly Bill]

From info learned on this thread, we experimented on some theater set pieces. The Gripper primer worked well as glue to hold glossy wide format printer paper to plywood. VERY well, it wouldn't come off to re-use the 1/4 luan for other set pieces for later shows, had to throw all of it away. The backdrop is 16x40 with that paper glued/Grippered to it. (my set for a production of Rent)

 

[me&z]

Glidden was bought out awhile ago and what is called Gripper is not the same formulation. Anyone found another paint/primer that works as well for this ?

Over on the tnttt forum (teardrops and trailers) many were using the old Gripper to make campers from xps foam and canvas. As far as I know no one has found the perfect replacement yet. That said, I used Zinsser® Bondz™ Interior/Exterior Maximum Adhesion Primer to adhere screen to foam to make insulation panels that also serve as headboard and footboard. I only made them last month, but so far so good.

 

[avenge]

Glidden was bought out awhile ago and what is called Gripper is not the same formulation. Anyone found another paint/primer that works as well for this ?

I believe Glidden was bought by PPG in 2013 rebranded as PPG Gripper and according to the TDS the formula has changed unknown if it changed adhesion properties. Unless it was due to regulatory reasons it's a dumb move by PPG.

 

[surly Bill]

It's possible, but rare, that the change in formula improved the paint...testing needed.

 

[joefromga]

Primer paint is basically thin wood glue. Just use thinned wood glue.