Glueing silicone?

Aug 13, 2024 Last reply: 1 year ago 10 Replies

The wristbands for my tracker watch keep failing in exactly the same way. It looks like a simple job to superglue the silicone back together, but I can never get it to hold together.



The wristband can be seen in the picture here:

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It's a strap with a loop, all moulded in silicone. After 3 or 4 months wear, the loop (at the bottom of the picture) breaks.



Am I using the wrong glue? Not cleaning it correctly? Or, it's impossible to glue silicone?


Silicone rubber is the worlds No1 release agent and mould as nothing sticks to it

Make a new strap out of leather and 3D printed plastic, or throw the cheap tracker watch away.

The WWW mentions priming with Permabond, but I suspect it's not available retail.

The OPPO tracker (with band) cost £15, and it works very well. It's just annoying to spend an extra £15 a year on bands.

or £20 a year on superglue...

As I said, 3D print a cradle and use a leathar watch strap or similar

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That solution will only cost me around £300 for a 3d printer ...

But its more fun. Get someone else to print the cradle for you.

+1. You don't need a printer you need a friend with one.

Oddly, over many years, I've found the most comfortable (and of course, long-lived) straps to be steel. Not the old expanding types, the ones with rigid but removable links for size adjustment.

But it's probably going to become difficult to buy straps in the future, as nobody younger than about sixty seems to use watches...

Those annoying springy rods that get lost so easily are quite easy to buy at the moment.

I bought one made of some sort of webbing in a pound shop or somewhere.

Andy

They seem to buy a small circular phone that straps on their wrist and talks to their main phone ...

The Timex watch with nylon webbing strap was compulsory in the early

70s, along with the miniature compass hidden in your shoe's heel ...

I think that, at least, was aimed at boys, along with shoes with animal footprints on the soles when they were new.

I was given a little keyring compass last year, which seemed to work, and a few weeks ago discovered that it can be remagnetised by a chance encounter with a magnet. Seeing the sun through the trees in a forest (in the UK) with the compass swearing that way was north was a clue... I thought that if the Earth's magnetic poles had reversed, there would have been some mention of it in the papers.

I remagnetised it with a magnet from a hard drive, and at the moment it points the right way.

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