My current setup for playing dances is a bit excessive, and I transport my pedalboard in an old hardshell suitcase. [1] There's no built-in padding, so I use sheets of foam to protect my equipment. Initially I just had these loose, but this was one more piece to deal with, so I decided to permanently attach them to the suitcase.

It's tricky to bond foam to plastic, but after some LLM-assisted searching it seemed like 3M 90 spray adhesive was a good choice. I followed the instructions (outside!) and attached my foam sheets to the case:

I was going to write something up right away, but I was wary of the dynamic where I write when something is new and exciting but before I know if it will last. Would the sheets just fall off again?

It's now been four months, including six gigs with Kingfisher, three with the Free Raisins, and one with Dandelion. [2] Four of these involved flights, which with the rough handling and temperature swings are probably the worst abuse the case will get. And... it's great! I haven't had any issues, and they still seem well attached. I guess I could have written the post when I had that just-did-something-new energy after all!

[1] I looked into lighter options but everything was super expensive and I couldn't find good used options.

[2] Somehow I ended up playing a very large fraction of my dances for the year this fall. This was more than currently makes sense given work and family, and I'm going to try to spread things out a lot more.