trying to help a customer with a supplied adhesive label

[gabagoo]

One of my good customers sells Boom Trucks and as such, they are supplied by boom mfger's with some of the decals for the control panels. They have a control panel on the back deck of this truck that gets hit good with the elements and the wind. The decal supplied is a printed decal with cutouts for the control knobs and it has a lexan finish. The box they put it on is plastic, but it is slightly pebbled. The issue is that the decal does not hold well on the edges and eventually tears up in about 3 months.
I find it strange that the mfg'r supplies it this way and told him that my connections on this board will have a solution.

So he was wondering if he could put contact cement around the all the sides of the decal.... I warned him to wait until I got an answer from you guys.

What can he use to get this pre made decal to stick better?

 

[Gino]

I think you're going about it wrong.

I'd try a reverse second surface print with silk screen ink on a clear acrylic film and epoxy it to the area. That's how the one is on our bucket truck. It's the original and it's an '89. Looks perfectly fine after 26 years.

 

[Eric H]

Could you mount the label to another piece of material and then screw or rivet it to the panel?

 

[CanuckSigns]

use 3M 468 Tape!

 

[gabagoo]

use 3M 468 Tape!

this is the way to go

thanks guys