Who knows adhesives?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 01/25/2018 at 12:13 • Filed to: None

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I need to glue an insert into a shoe. I need high adhesion, moisture resistance and flexibility. Dow-Corning 3145 RTV, perhaps?

LOREM IPSUM > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 12:19

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This is what you are looking for.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > LOREM IPSUM 01/25/2018 at 12:25

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+1 for Shoe Goo. Also handy in the garage.

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 12:30

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benjrblant > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 12:30

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Shoe Goo or Barge Glue which is a durable contact cement.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > LOREM IPSUM 01/25/2018 at 12:36

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I believe Shoo Goo to be your basic RTV silicone.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > benjrblant 01/25/2018 at 12:38

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Barge Glue... I’ll have to look that one up. Thanks for the tip.

LOREM IPSUM > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 12:39

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Probably so, but it has shoe in it’s name so seemed most appropriate. Plus anything that smells so chemically potent MUST be great stuff.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 12:42

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From Wikipedia:

Shoe Goo is composed of toluene , styrene-butadiene copolymer , and solvent naphtha . [4] [5]

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Urambo Tauro 01/25/2018 at 12:43

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/25/2018 at 12:47

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Yummy!

jimz > LOREM IPSUM 01/25/2018 at 12:58

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this. flexible and fast curing. RTV has its uses, this is not one of them.

Transit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 13:02

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What materials are you gluing together? Rubber-rubber, rubber-leather?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Transit 01/25/2018 at 13:34

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Eva to silicone rubber, some plastic and various shoe innards. I’ll go with something RTV. Either the mil spec Dow RTV that I have, or I’ll try some Barge cement, which I’ve never tried before.

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 14:13

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Gray fipg.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants 01/25/2018 at 15:13

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?

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 15:28

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Form in place gasket, the high temp and pressure rated stuff is color coded gray/silver. Red is high temp, flex expanding. Blue is low temp high pressure bond.

At least that is the color code for the cheap shit my company buys.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants 01/25/2018 at 15:36

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But in a shoe?

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 16:53

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Cheap shit company buys... the remnants oxidize in the tube and turn to garbage. Worked great for patching side blowout on my old work boots. Held for 6 months taking an oil bath daily.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dogsatemypants 01/25/2018 at 18:49

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I have a thing about adhesives; I love an excuse to work with them. In this thread, someone mentioned Bridge cement, which I’d never heard of before, and I’m going to buy some and try it out here.

Are you a mechanic? A wrench , as we said in the Army? I consider myself to be a wrench even though it’s not how I make my living.

Dogsatemypants > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/25/2018 at 21:49

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It is not my official job title, but yes my job involves being elbows deep in your cars gutty workins’

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/28/2018 at 21:16

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This stuff is the bomb. When my 20 year old racing weekend “filth” tennis shoes started having their soles delaminate from the body, this glued them back. It is basic urethane rubber. Perfect for gluing shoes or anything else that needs a flexible adhesive. A tube is about $6.

BTW, the tip will plug once used. So stab it with a screw driver to get some out next time you need some for gluing. One caution, if you get it on your hands, I have never found anything to clean them other than rubbing your skin raw. Plastic gloves recommended.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RacinBob 01/28/2018 at 21:21

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I wound up using Barge cement, a contact cement, that I’d never used before. So far, so good.