[LargeFormat] Bellows Repair

[Tim Atherton]

If you can find it, the black silicone compound is the way to go - great
stuff. I think you can get it at wetsuit places too - used for fixing
neoprene.

tim a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Bob Younger
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:34 PM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Bellows Repair
>
>
> Clive,
>
> Elmer's now makes several different glues and adhesives, but I suspect the
> Elmer's white glue is the one suggested. Long used by
> schoolchildren in the
> US for all sorts of crafts, etc., presumably non-toxic as I
> recall seeing my
> compatriots eating it.
> For the price of shipping, I'm quite certain someone over here could send
> you some.
>
> In repairing my bellows I found an opaque, black silicone compound at a
> maritime/boating supply and used it with a well sanded and rounded tongue
> depresser. It's worked well for two years now. Saved a costly bellows
> replacement on my Deardorff.
>
> Bob Younger
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive Warren" <Clive.Warren@megacycle.co.uk>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:35 AM
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Bellows Repair
>
>
> > Have just read an interesting article on bellows repair that
> suggests the
> > use of a concoction based on a glue called "Elmer's Glue" together with
> > some detergent and lampblack.  I have never seen Elmer's glue
> in the UK -
> > is there an equivalent glue that anyone knows about, or perhaps if you
> have
> > some of this wonder glue sitting around you could post the
> ingredients so
> I
> > can find an equivalent here in England.
> >
> > I havre a feeling that this is the same white glue that I have
> used in the
> > past for papier mache......
> >
> > Cheers,
> >             Clive
> >
> >
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