Target maintenance, tips and tricks?

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I can only assume a few on you in the TR/FTR world have to do target repairs and maintenance as well. I'm curious what you're all using and if anyone found better products.
I'm currently using either Dynamic clear paste or Roman 880 clear to paste the faces and centers onto white coroplastic. It kinda works but its not great, thermal expansion issues never end, humidity or worse rain pealing it off, and it still molds a bit over time. I tried some spray on glues, they held no better, worse actually.

So has anyone found a better glue or way to stick TR and F-class targets to plastic, maybe solvent based that quickly dries and has some flex to it or are we all still in the same never ending battle of having to fix them up every day before and during a match?
 
I tried the super 77, its ok/quick for the small centers, but it quickly let go for the big faces last year as soon at the sun hit it.
I'm debating gluing the paper targets on a thicker rigid cardboard so they'd have a more similar thermal expansion, and then fastening that on just 4 corners to the coroplastic but in a way that the plastic can do its thermal thing without warping the cardboard too much? we're moving to e-targets this year so won't have anyone in the butts anymore hopefully.
 
We’ve had good luck with vinyl flooring paste(glue) here in NB. Sorry I don’t have a name for it. Rarely have a bed sheet let go or need to do mid match repairs. Our midrange targets are on large pieces of cardboard so we can quickly add or remove them to the target frame while still having the long range targets underneath.
 
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