Thread: panel edging query

it will be a frustrating job but strip all of it off. Use a hot air gun/wifes iron and a flat scraper, get rid of all the glue (not easy) then sand down and paint.

been there done that very happy with results. In fact Ive done it 3 times for different people.

What Tonyz said, or you could apply fresh hot melt pre-glued edge banding with a clothes iron instead of painting.

If you're set on metal: Retro Metal Banding | Table Banding | Metal Edging | . Don't know how you'd go bending those profiles, and especially a C channel like you've illustrated, yourself. Might need to be professionally pre-formed by someone with the correct equipment.

A lot depends on panel thickness and the desired result. I remember a lot of early caravans had a laminex table that used to fold down as the bed, the top was edged with an aluminium strip screwed in place.

Appears to still be available.
Aluminium Table Edge Trim - Ezimetal

Originally Posted by droog

A lot depends on panel thickness and the desired result. I remember a lot of early caravans had a laminex table that used to fold down as the bed, the top was edged with an aluminium strip screwed in place.

Those edges were standard on Formica/Laminex kitchen tables and countertops in the 1950s & 1960s. Don't know if they were formed by hand on the edge or pre-formed on a machine. I remember them as being chrome finish, but don't know if the substrate was steel or aluminium.