Has Bostic contact adhesive changed >?

[Andrew]

Went out to buy another 250ml tin yesterday and paid £5.99 for it.

When I got home I noticed that the previous tin still had its price sticker - £9.49 and I think it was bought at the same store or another branch of same store about 3 years ago.

Perhaps the almost-used tin was mis-priced in the first place, or have Bostic fiddled with the content ?.

Since it uses very strong solvents, I wonder how they cope with VOC2010 anyway ?. The wording on the tin hasn't changed, but has slightly different warning symbols for inflammable etc.

[Andy Burns]

I think the "glue-sniffer" version containing Toluene was withdrawn from sale to joe public years ago. The main solvents in modern Bostik seem to be Xylene and Ethyl Acetate.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Does it perform as well as the older stuff? Evostik doesn't seem to since the solvent change.

[Andy Burns]

IME yes it does, maybe with a bit of a thinner snot-like consistency ...

[Brian Gaff]

Yes Evo stik is rubbish but still pongs. Brian

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Good to know. I need some contact adhesive for a job I'd once have used Evostik for, so I'll try it.