Where to get/buy thin vinyl sheet like gloves are made of?

Did you also need the rivets and buckles? ;-)

Owain

Latex free gloves tend to be Nitrile rubber. Available in sheet form

EPDM pond liner from garden centres ?. About 1mm thick I think.

Some maybe, but see:-

I never said one *couldn't* glue rubber/nitrile, just that I've found it more difficult than PVC. I've also found that the glued joints aren't anywhere near so robust as a solvent welded joint of PVC.

That's one possible route, yes. You can also get PVC pond liner which is probably the closest to what I want that I've found so far.

Thanks.

Consider 0.8mm neoprene. Thicker neoprene foam is glued together for wetsuits.

AJH

I never found PVC to be particularly stretchy, unlike "rubber" - but this may not be that important for your application.

Pond liner material is easily obtained in sheets from various suppliers, a quick gander at some suppliers does suggest though the qualities of stretchiness you are after may be difficult to find with PVC and advise use of EPDM or Butyl where liners have to stretched in a pond to line it tidily.

Your worries about glues not withstanding these places do sell adhesives to repair such materials and the joints have to be water tight.

G.Harman

Cheap shower curtain?

Yes, that may be the way to go, I've never found it *easy* to stick edpm, nitrile, neoprene, etc, though. With PVC it's trivial to stick.

The last time someone asked, I suggested evostik contact adhesive, when I tried it using some offcuts left from when I did my roof it stuck, but not very well.

The epdm came with some tins of primer to use before glueing, which presumably 'breaks through' the low surface energy and lets the glue get a grip.

Unfortunately the primer is not the sort of stuff you can keep around, it had a short shelf life and dire warnings not to open it until you were ready to use it as it would go off to a useless gel within 24 hours.

Exactly!

Much easier to stick PVC! .... which is where I started.

To a degree, obviously not like latex.

Exactly the problem, it's relatively easy to find non-stretchy PVC sheet but stretcy is another matter. It *can* be made because you can get very stretchy PVC gloves but I can't find a source of simple, stretchy sheet. I guess it's because it doesn't find many (any?) uses so no one makes or sells it - pity.

Are PVC gloves made from sheet or are they made by dipping moulds into liquid?

Owain

I'd *guess* they are made by the dipping method, I don't think there are any seams. However it doesn't mean it's not possible to produce stretchy sheet, just that it might not be produced.

I've seen them made by dipping. Whether there are any sewn sheet ones I don't know for sure, but can only think of downsides to doing them that way

NT