I am trying to attach the rubber seal to stainless steel fender skirts. Tried 3M weather stripping and also contact cement. Both failed after a short time. No damage to either pieces though. What do U think?
You got to think how many times its been polished up cleaned up you got all sorts of residue left on it , good luck
That's why they used to heavy duty staple them. Just clean and try again. Store bought 3M is no where near as good as it used to be! Fuken safety laws, someone probably complained because it stuck to something too firmly.
I recently had to rejoin metal to rubber on a pressure washer mounting buffer. I tried 3M black trim adhesive but it didn't really set up so after cleaning everything back up inc' W&G remover, I tried some Weaver Adhesive I had stored in the fridge. It's a 2K glue used for Zodiac's and the like and I was quite happy with the results. Not safe around paint is my guess but it would be a good option for OP's use.
I have had good luck with GE silicone II available a home depot and places like that. Ive used it to hold on emblems and actually had it rip the paint right off the car rather than let go.
I used black silicon to do the same thing, except on painted skirts. I put silicon on the edge of the skirt, put the strip in place, and taped it down overnight while it dried. This is after cleaning the surfaces with wax & grease remover.
I've used DAP contact adhesive from Home Depot. You can find it in the paint/glue aisle. The same kind used to adhere laminate to countertops. It glued fabric to metal with no problems at all. Chris
That wont work. Cynoacrylate glues break down in water. SG was orig designed for quick battlefield suchers, then the body's fluids break it down. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
It's the same issue as all good paint and primer work: The main key is perfectly clean metal. If you want glue to really stick, then after de-greasing you sand or etch the metal. Otherwise you're just gluing rubber to the film of "whatever" that is on the metal.
What's funny is that hot gasoline won't dissolve it. I re-used unavailable antique carb gaskets by swelling them with Krazy Glue and letting them cure before installing. They never leaked or broke down. The fumes of uncured cyanoacrylates are deadly though. Don't ever put your face above uncured Krazy glue. Burns the eyes like a sumbitch.
wiped down with acetone and attached using liquid nails. Told that silicone was more of a caulk verses an adhesive. shoulda went to auto parts house instead of Lowes . Oh well, as long as it works...
I can't believe that when cleaned properly the two pieces can't be stuck together with two coats of contact cement, allowing them to dry to the touch between coats and before final placement.
My God I hope it works as an adhesive! I've got 250 lb sheets of glass glued to aluminum with GE silicone on the sides of 35 story buildings. (No I don't own 'em. I just designed the windows.)
It couldn't hurt to scuff up the part where the rubber goes on. Scratches will help the glue hold, just like it helps paint hold. And ALWAYS clean surfaces before gluing, painting, or whatever.
Go on the GE silicone web site & read the cleaning procedures for 4-sided "silicone glazing". When it really must stick, life-or-death you know, follow that procedure for cleaning and priming. (Be careful to observe where the procedures are slightly different for the different types of silicone.) In the 80's I did proposals for the engineering of the original "Biosphere" project, where they wanted a 100 year guarantee on the silicone glazing. but silicone glue wasn't even developed until the space program of the 60's as I recall. A twenty-something year history IMHO just isn't enough to be that confident (but GE evidently was confident enough based on "accelerated aging" tests.) When they actually built the sealed glass dome, it was 100% airtight and it nearly killed the people living in it from hypoxia! They made way more co2 than the oxygen coming from their farming could offset, proving that it's pretty damn hard to grow food under a dome and still breathe. That sucker was air tight then, but who knows if it'll last 100 years.
I forgot about that "biosphere" project. Bet it would now make a neat green house. Looks like the rubber stuck this time.Will read about silicone Thanks everybody
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