welding solar swimming pool blanket

I have a solar swimming pool cover that is perfectly in good condition. looks brand new. The problem is I have the seams coming apart .. I have tried epoxy glue to no avail.. It did not work. Is there something or some way that I can weld this vinyl material at the seams to make it not come apart?? any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Reply to
Normand Slowskan
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Epoxy?

Why exoxy?

There are "glues" that work just find witn vinyl, thank you. If there are stitches on the seam you might have to re-do them (the thread might have rotted out.)

One source of the vinyl "glue" is a water bed store. That might run into a little money (I paid about $5 for a few square inches of patch and a 1/4 oz tube of cement.) I understand that places that sell supplies for pools often have vinyl patching stuff.

Reply to
John Gilmer

Impulse sealer.

Clear PVC plumbing cement.

Reply to
Richard J Kinch

Wow. You can get 4 oz of that glue for a few bucks at Home Depot, disguised as PVC pipe cement.

Reply to
Richard J Kinch

If I were 100% certain that the same glue used to cement a rigid couping to a rigid pipe would also work on very flexible vinyl would do the trick, I would have just gone down to the basement.

But I am not 100% certain.

Reply to
John Gilmer

They're both PVC. PVC by itself or with fillers (makes pipe cheaper and UV resistant) is rigid. PVC with a bit of plasticizer (merely a solvent that doesn't evaporate) makes it flexible; that's all "vinyl" is. That's why "vinyl" gets hard and brittle; the plasticizer migrates out and evaporates, like my old Buick in the 1970s, although they tend to be better-performing compounds these days. The smell and bitter taste of a garden hose is the (typically cheap) plasticizer doing this migration. Cf the baby-bottle- nipple controversy. Also a major component of the "new car smell", and of vinyl reconditioners like Armor-All.

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Richard J Kinch

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