Good place for boat carpet??

[Stik-ugly]

Old boot mentioned Jacksons Foam and Vinyl at Raceview are in the process of closing down and have everything discounted so you may get a deal there, they do stock marine carpet .

[BM]

Sorry BM.... glue comes as "brush on/ spray on" or "scrape on".

I do very much agree that buying it from a board supplier is a good thing.

Anything with the Selly's brand on it is simply a retail packaged product, and you will generaly pay too much.

I have mostly baught mine thru a laminex distributer because it is convienient....their contact cements are rebadged Bostic.

Sorry but the days of getting good spray glue for $80-$100 per 20 litre have been gone for a while... more like $150 to $170 for the good stuff these days...well last time I baught.

expect to use about 1 litre per square meter sprayed.....brushing will use twice that.

If you use scrape on you will use rediculous amounts, with no better adhesion.

cheers

Things must be different up north Old Boot.

Down south we buy it as spray grade or brush grade. We don't have a scrape on grade.

The last 20ltr drum I bought was maybe 3 months ago and I paid $80 for it. They wanted $100 and I said I usually pay $80 and they decided to sell it to me for $80. At that particular plyboard outlet I get the lowest possible rate which they call cabo rate (cabinet makers). I have been buying from those guys for about 10 yrs.

cheers

[oldboot]

Yeh I baught a drum of cheap stuff from my local board shop ( Nightingale brand I think) some time ago.....god awfull stuff, cheap and pissy, hardly any body and I had to use twice as much.

What you pay for in contact cement is the % solids, its easy to make a cheap version, just make it thinner.

For gluing carpet you need plenty of solids.

Quite some time ago we used to buy direct ( factory door) off one of the starch companies (yeh starch....rubber..who knows), they used to make several versions of the same glue, the difference was the % solids and it made quite a difference to the price.

I supose it depends on who prints the lable.....if you can spray it you can brush it.

Back when laminex was laminex.......they had SR202 which was their standard brushable sprayable, and they had SR44 (i think) and that was a higher temp product that would not spray and was typicaly brushed or scraped.

Anyway what ever you buy there is a very big difference in buying it in a retail package under a brand like Selley's and buying a trade product..

Come to think of it I recon you may have a hard time buying a sprayable in retail quantities.

cheers

[BM]

Definitely not cheap grade that I get. I have been stung once before with the cheap stuff. Been using this stuff for many yrs on my boats and customers boats. Never have adhesion issues.

Just rang my supplier. 20ltr drum $89.13 (cabo rate). Dunno what they'd charge Joe Average off the street.

Cheers