Q: I know cars are most everyones bread and butter, but I had a thought. I had an old beat up coffee table in my living room that had alot of scratches. I took a piece of ppf and covered the table and the piece looks brand new. The film not only hid the scratches but it also protects the surface from water stains and more scratches. Plus there are no compound curves and there is not a lot of labor. There may be potential for funiture stores and office buildings wanting to protect their confrence tables or home owners wanting to keep their expensive tables looking nice. Any thoughts?

A: Pull it off and see whats happens to the wood/finish...Also, you need to "prep" the surface before installing it, how would you do this without damaging the surface beneath? Imagine applying the film over a nicely pledged surface, probably wouldn't stick too good. Good idea, I would just recommend leaving the film on your table for say 4-6 weeks, pull it off, if it does nothing to the finish, could be something worth looking into.

A: As far as other options, I have done a few I pods and cell phones, just for the clear display window. I have also wrapped some mounain bikes.

A: Large toolboxes (Matco, Snap-On), motorcycle and boat trailers, top of table stand underneath the glass (moreso to protect the tint on the glass from the stand than to protect the stand itself), bicycles... dunno. I can't think of anything else different that i've used it on.

A: protection for the front end of ATV's, wave runners and snow mobiles

table top protectors for a manufacturer of pewter outdoor patio tables

visor protectors for a SWAT team in northern California that used to get scratches on the face visors after training and missions when they just threw the helmets in the back of the truck

Hand rail protection for brass hand rails in a mall in Florida where the local kids were sliding down the rails with their skate boards. (Sold them some 3M 2" wide material)

Cushions to protect the feet of expensive wine glasses, crystal champagne flutes and such on wooden glass racks that are used in the manufacture of luxury yachts here in NC.(Like the glass racks seem overhead in bars)

Door kick plate protectors, which we have offered to Lowe's Hardware and Home Depot. They perform particularly well at keep brass kick pates from tarnishing.

Watch crystal protectors

......and so on. I'm sure there were more but these are the ones I remember most readily.

The uses are infinite just be careful though because the film does get slippery when wet. So while you may want to protect the bottoms of boats from scratches while beach partying you probably wouldn't want to use the film to protect the sides (gunwales) where people step in and out of the boat.

A: I've had my desk at home covered for about 8 months now... formica finish...

I install it direct to raw wood tops of wallpaper tables I use as portable cutting tables for all kinds of film... film sticks real well to ppf during cutting...

Use the stuff as book covers to protect paperback and hardback books...

Wife wore a hole in the heel of her brand new tennie's... I stuffed cotton in the hole laminated the interior heel area with ppf having a couple of tabs slight overlap the edge to keep it from peeling as her foot slides in or out.

Used it after glueing a glass bird bath together as a seal on the bottom to ensure it did not leak and to keep one's fingers from striking any sharp glass edge at the break area...

Used some to hold the crackedthumb button on the wife's curling iron closed after glueing the crack it had...

Helps hold a fire extinguisher sign to a painted I beam...

Laminate some to the trunk of the demo car used in the booth at SEMA... keeps it protected while demostrating heat forming window film and give us the ability to set tools down on the lid... not the heat gun though... evilgrin.gif

Give me duct t ::err:: ppf and I can fix the world...

A: how about using on the back of a magnet sign? or would it be better to apply to painted surface where sign is placed? on a vehicle also laminated a vinyl gold leaf sign in hopes that it will last longer out in the weather.

A: Semi-professional hockey league asked for it on the goal frame to stop the red paint from chipping.

Only in Canada!

A: Kid that works with me is taking a 12"X60' roll of paint protection film up snowboarding and is gonna cover the painted tops of snowboards for $60 each, guess they get thrashed

If he sells the whole roll(15 boards) he says it will pay for the trip

A: Had a guy come in years ago to have me cover his snowboard in vinyl to give it a different look. It looked different alright after a few times of going up to the mountain. The amount of flexing those boards go through caused it to ripple and bubble. Looked like hell. I even had a buddy of mine put a large layer of clearcoat on a custom painted board I had....the flexing caused the clearcoat to crack.

Might be worth a try to PPF a board.....but I don't think it'll last.