Rubber cement glue ......

[Pricey 11]

Hi guys,

Can rubber cement glue (Elmer) be used to glue the rubber to blade?
Will it ruin the sponge or is this a good substitute for normal water base glue?

Cheers everyone


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[aerial]

I was a long-time user of RC when I used cheaper Chinese rubbers from 729 or DHS, but after starting to use Euro/Japanese rubbers I switched to water-based glue.

If you use a lot of RC it acts like speed glue and can be detrimental to the rubber--making its lifespan shorter. I don't think it would do much if you put one layer on the blade and one layer on the rubber.

A buddy of mine uses sheets of Tenergy and he used RC to glue it on and as far as we can both tell, it's holding up fine.

 

[mahomedy13]

It can be used.it works well

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Too much imo will ruin the sponge.

Again, the question is - if you will be using expensive rubbers, why not use proper voc free water based glue?
You only really need to glue once

With the huge increase in voc free glue price, but glue once vs the older glues + glue often, I think voc free option is cheaper

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It can be used.it works well

Did you use this in South Africa?

 

[aerial]

you can still "glue once" with RC

 

[Der_Echte]

Rubber Cement is perfectly fine for many sponge/rubbers. Certain modern sponges... not a good idea, like Tenergy/MX-P. After the rubber is a couple months used, it doesn't matter.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Rubber Cement is perfectly fine for many sponge/rubbers. Certain modern sponges... not a good idea, like Tenergy/MX-P. After the rubber is a couple months used, it doesn't matter.

My first Tensor rubber - Rakza 7 was destroyed like that.
Just came back from 6 years break, all these rule changes, all these new sponges

Learnt the hard way

 

[mahomedy13]

Did you use this in South Africa?

I did.it was given to me by someone.