refoam glue = Elmers ??

[SEAWOLF97]

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I get this question often and dont have a good answer for them.

Is the white refoam glue that I get from the speaker repair
shop the same as white Elmers glue ?

[rdgrimes]

No.

[BMWCCA]

Maybe not but what Rick Cobb supplies would appear to be very similar to Aleene's Tacky Glue. :dont-know:

[JeffW]

Model airplanes use RC 56 Canopy Glue. I think the original company quit making it, but most hobby shops have a Formula 56 Glue of some sort that's white, flexible, water soluble, and sticks well to a variety of surfaces.

[BMWCCA]

Tacky Glue is easy to find and cheap. Seems to work fine, too. You'll find it at WalMart and Michael's, just to name a couple of locations. 4oz. is generally about a buck and in gallon bottles around $30.

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[tomt]

i got an epi 100 from the trash a while back.

had a slit in the rubber suround.

put some elmers/ross white glue around the slit,

and was made air tight.


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[BMWCCA]

Got a surround from Simply Speakers to repair a customer's automobile subwoofer. It came with a small tube of some stuff that bore a striking resemblance to Duco cement. It was clear and got tack very quickly but kept making stringy wisps of glue (like model airplane cement) whenever I'd go back to secure the surround. I didn't like working with it as much as Rick Cobb's stuff. :dont-know:

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[doyall]

... It came with a small tube of some stuff that bore a striking resemblance to Duco cement. ... :dont-know:

Was it MEK? I got some of that with a non-Rick Cobb refoam kit one time and it was seriously a PITA to work with.

[BMWCCA]

It was the adhesive supplied. Likely nitro cellulose based.
MEK is a solvent. They did not supply a solvent and instead suggest using rubbing alcohol.

[hjames]

Was it MEK? I got some of that with a non-Rick Cobb refoam kit one time and it was seriously a PITA to work with.

MEK = Methyl Ethyl Ketone ... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Butanone
Its a clear solvent - you can buy that at Home Despot - comes in a can like mineral spirits or turpentine


I've used it to clean the remains of bad foam surrounds off speaker coans before doing a replacement job - but be careful - it WILL dissolve aquaplas (mind didn't have aquaplas) - Anyway, its got to be used with plenty of ventilation!
But MEK is not any kind of glue I know of!

[4343]

Maybe not but what Rick Cobb supplies would appear to be very similar to Aleene's Tacky Glue. :dont-know:
And he told me to use just that when I asked him...