Is there a glue or some other way to bond sheet rubber to sheet rubber? This is not as kinky as it sounds. The sort of rubber I'm thinking about is the sort in CV joint gaiters, and the joint needs to be able to withstand the stresses and movement a gaiter is normally subject to for say 30-50k miles.
well puncture repairs wouldn't work if there wasn't such a glue
But really, why not replace the frigging gaiter?
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They are usually heated, aren't they? And there's not much movement.
It takes around 90 minutes to replace a gaiter currently. A wrap-around one would take 5 minutes. Multiply that time saving by the number of FWD cars in the world.
Shoe Goo works pretty well on shoes, might be worth a try:
also via eBay and other places.
You can buy split gaiters that come with glue to join them. They are, IMO, shit. Very stiff, and you need to keep the joint very clean for the glue to work, which around a CV joint is tricky, and you end up gluing your fingers to the boot.
Thanks. I thought it was likely somebody had produced something, but I didn't know what terms to search for. Your comments on the product are very interesting, too.
Its easy to glue rubber to rubber.
I doubt if a gaiter made of rubber would last long with all the oil and stuff about.
The synthetic stuff gaiter are made from is also easy to glue if its clean which is hard on old dirty cars. I tried a split gaiter myself and gave up and did it properly the only time I did a gaiter. The time saving in doing it properly was significant. I seriously doubt if a proper garage would be able to fit and glue a split gaiter quicker than doing it properly.
Super glue works well on rubber.
Does it last with the cold, wet and salt?
Local car spares place sells them by the bucket load, not a fan personally but I have used them in the past for a quick MOT fix.
Last time I used one was on an old (but low mileage car) where the suspension bolts and other parts were so rusty that taking it apart and doing it properly was far more work than justified.
The first TV advert for super glue had a giant O-ring which a body-builder used as a bungie strap to bounce on. He cut through it, bonded the cut ends back together with super glue, and then bounced in it again. It was pretty damn impressive at the time when we didn't have anywhere near as many advanced glues available as we do nowadays.
(I looked on youtube for it, but couldn't find it.)
it was, until it became apparent that one could not successfully repeat the trick at home.
NT
contact adhesive, rubber cement, sbr...
Now there's optimism.
NT
The rubber door seals on the old Rover don't have a very long life. Replacing the bits that wear out from another (it's the same section all round) extend the life considerably. And super glue seems to stand up well to this. Maybe not quite as severe a test as a CVT boot - but that may not be rubber anyway.
superglue.
I remember that.
Do you remember all the jolly japes soon afterwards appearing in the newspapers. People going to A&E with phone handsets stuck to their hands, toilet sets bonded to their buns and so on?
It's surprising the modern prankster hasn't thought to try that - possibly because noone uses public phones and public loos are a rarity.
Many tears ago I had an old cassette recorder Sony where the rubber drive belt (about 2mm in dia) had stretched and the tape wouldn't spool, to I removed the belt, cut a couple if centimetres out and glues the ends back together with super glue. Worked fine for a couple more years until I junked the recorder for other reasons.
What was or is the glue in bicycle type inner tube repair kits?
Besides, even if it was kinky, most of us would not really care to be honest. Brian
No puncture kit glue did not use heating at all when I was young, but in any case as has been said, where is the saving, by the time you have cleaned up the surfaces in situ and worked out how to hold the surfaces together while it sets, you could have changed it. Brian
Good question. The rubber normally used in gaiters is neoprene, apparently. So, I want a design that works well with neoprene, and somehow still works despite a big smudge of moly grease just where you want to do the glueing.
I am wondering whether a weld wouldn't be much more robust. Or some sort of staple.
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