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Re: Water cleanup contact cement
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 5/17/2001, 10:40 am
In Response To: Re: glue for plastic (John Monfoe)

: There is a contact cement that the clean up is with water rather then lacquer
: thinner that is safe on many plastics.

That stuff really isn't so hot for kayaking applications. You'll find your foam falling off a little sooner than you'd like!

I've used regular ol' Weldwood Contact Cement on Polyethylene many times before and haven't had any problems with it eating the plastic. Poly is pretty solvent-resistant.

That's what 99% of all whitewater boaters use to outfit their WW boats, and some of them do it just for the thrill of sniffing glue! (Just kidding about the sniffing glue part!)

Shawn

Messages In This Thread

glue for plastic
Theo -- 5/16/2001, 9:34 pm
Re: glue for plastic
peter czerpak -- 5/17/2001, 8:05 am
Re: glue for plastic
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 5/16/2001, 9:55 pm
Re: glue for plastic
John Monfoe -- 5/17/2001, 4:52 am
Re: Water cleanup contact cement
Shawn Baker -- 5/17/2001, 10:40 am
Re: Water cleanup contact cement
Brian Nystrom -- 5/17/2001, 12:14 pm