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Hanging an mdf clip frame

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I bought a 450mm x 1150mm acrylic clip frame, with 3mm mdf board.
This is a kind of diy kit, and so has no means of hanging the frame.
I would guess the weight is about 1-1.5kg.
What would be the best way of hanging it?
My first thought is some kind of double self-adhesive hooks, but perhaps these would tear away the top layer of mdf?
Hanging from an edge clip would just pull the clip off the frame due to the weight.
Some kind of wire lattice threaded through some of the clips?
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Re: Hanging an mdf clip frame

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You are right to be cautious about double-sticky hangings. If they didn't detach from the MDF they would pull a chunk
of paint/paper off the wall. The best way is to rivet a pair of double hole D-rings to the back and use cord. You have
to consider the back of the rivets will maybe press against the contents of the frame so some sort of barrier is in order.
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Re: Hanging an mdf clip frame

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Clip frames are less than ideal in this regard, probably the best you can do is to string a cord from the clips on one side to the clips on the other side. Above a certain size, the weight of a clip frame can become a serious difficulty, to sucessfully hang on wall. I am not being funny when I say this, putting it simply as the size of the frame becoming larger, the weight requires more and more clips to suport the weight, eventually the number of clips becomes an unreasonable number and hanging large clip frames ceases to be a practical possibility.

Clip frame are often made to stand of shelves as the most convenient solution for most customers. Clip frames are intended as the cheapest possible option and providing a proper provision for hanging would increase the price which clip frames sell for. Considering the very competitive market for clip frames and the fact that retailers need a worthwhile margin to pay for their display space, this leaves the manufacturers with almost no worthwhile margin at all.

Cheap ready made frames are not usually significantly more expensive than clip frames, but they are much easier to hang them on a wall. Sorry, but clip frames are particularly suitable as wall hanging frames and the manufacturer's never intended the to be so. They are just meant to be as cheap as possible, for people who only want the cheapest possible option and this just one of the limitations which you accept when buying a clip frame. No one is making any worthwhile profit selling clip frames at all. In time some of the clips fall of and get lost.

Sorry, but you have not been cheated, that what you get for rock bottom prices.
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Re: Hanging an mdf clip frame

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Just pop into your local framer and ask if you can buy a couple of d-rings and a couple of Biff Rivets
The Biff rivets have a split shaft, which you can bend each part down flat, then hit with your favorite hammer
Make a two holes in the MDF backing, drill if you want to, then place the d-rings on with the Biff rivet poking through the hole, bend the split shaft down and hammer flat, tie picture cord to the d-rings and once you have put everything back in the frame, hang up

If you want to do a lot, you can buy them here, check out the biff rivets, tells you how to use them

https://www.lionpic.co.uk/p/10259/Bifur ... -pack-1000

https://www.lionpic.co.uk/p/8074/Qualit ... d-500-pack
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Re: Hanging an mdf clip frame

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Thanks, the hole / d-ring / rivets solution looks good!
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