3M Adhesive is the name of the product, I'm pretty sure. It's a spray-on adhesive, pretty flammable. Usually used for art products like poster boards and matting. Unless you mean something different ...
Rob, do you think that Super 90 would work to re-attach a pad to a board? I have a Parkes whose pad is beginning to pick up around the edges, threatening to catch my knees as I transfer from prone to riding position.
Jafo wrote:Rob, do you think that Super 90 would work to re-attach a pad to a board? I have a Parkes whose pad is beginning to pick up around the edges, threatening to catch my knees as I transfer from prone to riding position.
If the pad isn't completely off the board you'd be best to use "barge cement" - this is an *extremely* strong and waterproof contact cement that shoemaker's use to cement on rubber soles. Shoe repair shops sell it, and some hardware stores, comes in a small squeeze tube.
Jafo wrote:"Barge" cement, eh? Kind of an ironic name!
Thanks for the tip. Is it one of those cements you apply sparingly, or do you need quite a bit?
Prop open the area that the pad is lifting off (maybe a piece of popsicle stick), clean out well with naphtha (lighter fluid - it'll dry off almost instantly), apply a *thin* smear of the contact cement to both the pad and the deck (again, I use a popsicle stick - yummy!), allow each side to dry well (15-30 minutes or so), press the two together hard. That's it. Ain't coming off again. Maybe never.
I have never own a board with a pad and never will. I have ridin a few boards with pads and I didn`t like it. There`s nothing like taking a wax comb to your knees..
Deck pads are a God-send! Good 'n' thick pads will really help young knees to eventually cope with old age ... and allow old, bad knees to keep on keepin' on kneeboarding-style.
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