How do you restore the finish on a old wooden floor model stereo?
My parents bought this in 1974. It's pressed wood and the top layer of vinyl covering the pressed wood is peeling off. How can I restore this. I would really like to keep it. I can't bring myself to throw it out. I know the radio/record player can be fixed pretty easily.
So all you need to do is re-glue vinyl to the particle board?
Maybe I’m not understanding.
CAREFULLY Lift up peeling vinyl parts and use 50 grain sandpaper to make sure the ‘wood’ is firm enough to hold glue, not falling apart back into its original sawdust. Make sure the underside of vinyl doesn’t have much old glue or wood stuck to it because when you press them back together you don’t want it to be bumpy and you do want the edges to match perfectly with the corner or whatever it ends at. Then glue it. Any hardware store will have glue suitable for this.
Use weights and something flat like a book to hold it in place until the glue dries. Any glue which squeezes out should not have been there in the first place so use as little glue as possible. When dry use 220 grain sandpaper to touch up where the edges meet.