Headlinder

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Originally Posted by A1971Blazer

my friend and next door neighbor has an upholstery shop and does interiors for higher end restoration vehicles...
For a lot of panels, he uses a PVC sheet that is used in boat interiors. It can be heated and molded, glues strong like PVC pipe and is impervious to moisture.
For some panels he uses a tool I made him to recess small magnets (1/2" round x 1/8" thick) flush into the sheet then glues them in place. As far as I know, he's never had an issue with them coming loose.

He will be doing my '67 interior when the time comes. I plan to make my own trim that will attach to the headliner and the entire assembly will be held in place with the magnets...

Yeah, the 88-98 headliners all end up failing. That fabric comes loose from the backing board material. The fabric is spray glued on. I saw that replacements were made using a poly-type molded backer and that is certainly what I would use. I wondered if the repro headliners were upgraded with a similar material. That's what fails on the original headliners, they warp and pull loose, or the paper skin separates and left behind still stuck to the adhesive. It's not the adhesive that fails, it's the hardboard. There is no reason to go to any other way of fastening than what the factory did.