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Elmer's Rubber Cement is not the vulcanizing kind!
On 27 Apr, 04:46, DirtRoadie wrote:
On Apr 26, 6:55*pm, wrote: Michael Press wrote: Remove a well adhered patch. *You will see no indication of chemical bond formation. I find a well adhered patch not removable without heating. *Heating affects the REMA patch orange rubber more than the tube rubber so they separate with careful pulling. *I have not cared what remains on the contact surface (it looks clean to me) before applying a new patch and allowing it to cure. I have also removed quite a few patches using a suitable solvent - toluene and xylene are two that work. The hard part seems to be getting a patch *edge lifted to gain acces to the tube/patch interface. Once that is accomplished the rest is easy using a slow "peeling" technique in conjunction with more solvent (think "cotton swab"). Even well adhered patches will come off clean leaving *no sign that there was ever a patch adhered/bonded *there. Everyone seems to agree on that last detail. I cannot support this for I have had no desire to remove a well adhered patch. Why? |
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