Water-based Contact Cement

[oldhudson]

I had to make up a couple of panels for the project I'm working on from bead board and 1/4" pw. Contact cement is the right bonding adhesive for that type of project. Because it's winter and I'm working inside I looked for and found water based contact cement (Weldwood). It worked great. It seams less viscous than the solvent based cement. It flowed great. Dried in 40 minutes. Cleaned up well and didn't stink!

 

The only issue is that the materials must be at 65° F for 24 hours before and after bonding. We never have the heat up that high at night and 66 is the daytime temp so I needed to store the sheets in a bathroom with a heater. Nothing's perfect.

 

 

[amazingkevin]

I had to make up a couple of panels for the project I'm working on from bead board and 1/4" pw. Contact cement is the right bonding adhesive for that type of project. Because it's winter and I'm working inside I looked for and found water based contact cement (Weldwood). It worked great. It seams less viscous than the solvent based cement. It flowed great. Dried in 40 minutes. Cleaned up well and didn't stink!

 

The only issue is that the materials must be at 65° F for 24 hours before and after bonding. We never have the heat up that high at night and 66 is the daytime temp so I needed to store the sheets in a bathroom with a heater. Nothing's perfect.

Pictures of project ?Good idea on the water base glue! Thanks for the idea!

[oldhudson]

Pictures of project ?Good idea on the water base glue! Thanks for the idea!

 

Pictures to come when it's complete. It'll be interesting because this will be the first time I sprayed the finish, without a rattle can that is.

[LarryEA]

store the sheets in a bathroom with a heater. Nothing's perfect. .....and didn't stink!

These are your words........ just rearranged a little

Thakns for the update on Contact cement.

[Lucky2]

I've only ever used water based contact cement on one job, I had to do the job over twice. It didn't work on the first application, so, I tried to fix it. That was a waste of time, two weeks later I redid the whole job over using regular CC. I talked to the fellow I bought the glue from, he told me to file a claim against the glue company. I did that and never expected anything in return, boy was I wrong. I had to send the leftover glue back to the parent company, then I waited to hear back from them. Well, I got a call from the store where I buy my supplies, the owner asked if I could drop by not telling why. I wasn't doing much, so I went to see what he needed. The glue company representative was there, he had a check for me to cover the complete cost of the whole job. It was years ago, and I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to think it was Lepage that I dealt with. I haven't used water based CC since.

Len