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Thread ID: 148863 2020-02-23 04:18:00 I need a glue expert (no, not that sort) Tony (4941) PC World Chat
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1466884 2020-02-23 04:18:00 One of the anti-slip pads has come off my Logitech keyboard, and none of the adhesives I have tried will stick it back on. It is some sort of sponge rubber, and all the what would seem obvious candidates that I have just don't work. Nothing seems to adhere to the spongy rubber.

I've tried latex rubber cement, Ados contact adhesive and even PVA - nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?
Tony (4941)
1466885 2020-02-23 04:34:00 Double sided tape should do it. CliveM (6007)
1466886 2020-02-23 05:06:00 The only general purpose glue I bother with is Araldite. Not the 5 min stuff either.

One exception, actual PVC, you need a special glue for that stuff - (like water tanks etc).
piroska (17583)
1466887 2020-02-23 06:12:00 The originals (and a lot of laptop rubbers) are held on with double sided tape. wainuitech (129)
1466888 2020-02-23 06:52:00 Clean the surfaces of the items to be joined, with double-sided sellotape, using isopropyl alcohol on a cotton bud. allow the alcohol to dry before applying sellotape.

You can make new slidey feet for computer mice by cutting the correct shape from a dishwashing liquid plastic bottle, apply the sellotape to the correctly shaped cleaned dried plastic, cut the sellotape to size and apply combination to mouse or whatever.
zqwerty (97)
1466889 2020-02-23 07:44:00 Double sided tape might well do it. I'll certainly give it a go. The main issue I can see is manipulating a 30 x 5mm vaguely oval piece of tape into the right position.

Worth a try though. I'll report back.
Tony (4941)
1466890 2020-02-23 17:30:00 It is what was originally used for most stick on pads. Stick it to the pad first, trim it then before removing the covering of side 2 and then place it in position. Clean all surfaces first as Zwerty advises in post #5 CliveM (6007)
1466891 2020-02-23 18:15:00 It is what was originally used for most stick on pads. Stick it to the pad first, trim it then before removing the covering of side 2 and then place it in position. Clean all surfaces first as Zwerty advises in post #5

I was thinking about it after my last post and realized that is exactly what I have to do. D'oh! Thanks.
Tony (4941)
1466892 2020-02-23 19:43:00 No wonder it doesn't last then.....tape, double sided or not, loses it's stick after time, the plastic goes brittle too. piroska (17583)
1466893 2020-02-23 20:11:00 All done. I'm slightly embarrassed that I didn't think of the double-sided tape myself.

Thanks everyone.
Tony (4941)
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