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suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Beefy » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:11 pm

hi guys,
my rear up-n-over door rubbers are splitting where the corners were originally bonded together to make it a seemless
join.
any suitable glues to join back together?
ive tried bostik/evo stick (works great to join the rubber to the door but not rubber to rubber)
and even tried the vulcanising liquid that comes with puncture repair kits and nothing seems to hold out.
need to stop the water getting in around the top edge soon or there wont be any van left to make water tight :0
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby chipv8 » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:45 pm

I was gonna say rubber cement from a puncture kit but you mention you tried it. Would it melt together with some carefully applied heat? Or you could try Plumbers solvent weld but i doubt that will work, just an idea.
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Altransit » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:57 pm

Rubber used to be one of the few things that I found could be stuck together using Superglue .............. well that and skin :!: :lol:
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Grenadekid » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:50 pm

Altransit wrote:Rubber used to be one of the few things that I found could be stuck together using Superglue .............. well that and skin :!: :lol:


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: If i had a quid every time i used super glue to stick something like a door seal and managed to stick my fingers to it as well. Superglue was a nightmare, either that or i should never be let near the stuff :lol:
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby bortaf » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:52 pm

But superglue is water soluble so if it's keeping water out it'll fail again :(
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby darkbluevanman » Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:21 pm

sikaflex? or windscreen glue?? nip to the local windscreen place, as the use a primer on the 'rubber' prior to bonding, could give you some advice
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby captain hook » Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:23 pm

LOCKTITE 409 :wink:
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Steve B » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:07 am

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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Grenadekid » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:45 pm

bortaf wrote:But superglue is water soluble so if it's keeping water out it'll fail again :(


dunno about soluble but i stuck a peice of new rubber into transit doorseal with a hole in it and that was two years ago and its still going strong
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby Grenadekid » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:48 pm

Steve B wrote:sikaflex


sikaflex would be the right stuff, it probably wont stick the seals together but will form an elastic joint between the two seperating bits
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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby WINDSCREENGUY » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:51 pm

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Re: suitable glues to join door rubber ends back together?

Postby AndyG » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:55 pm

And this is what I use http://www.hafixs.co.uk/ :D

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