Congealed Cotol

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Chuck Tribolet - 07 Jan 2004 03:05 GMT

The other day, I bought a tube of Aquaseal and Cotol.
When I got home, I noticed that the Cotol had, rather than
being the usual clear then liquid, partially congealed. About
half of it was like dry rubber cement in the bottle. A couple
of days later, in a different dive shop, I noticed that the same
thing had happened all the Aquaseal and Cotol packages they
had on display. Then I took my package back to the LDS where
I bought it, and same problem: all the packages had the same
problem.

Anybody know what's going on?

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Scott - 07 Jan 2004 04:32 GMT

> The other day, I bought a tube of Aquaseal and Cotol.
> When I got home, I noticed that the Cotol had, rather than
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> Anybody know what's going on?

Yeah, it was *really* old.

Scott

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Charlie Hammond - 07 Jan 2004 13:46 GMT

>> The other day, I bought a tube of Aquaseal and Cotol.
>> When I got home, I noticed that the Cotol had, rather than
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>Scott

I've had the same problem with dive shops from Main/New Hampshire
to Florida. This might be a case where buying from a high-volume,
on-line dealer is a better idea. (I have no specific experience
to back this up -- just speculating.)

Does anyone know of non-dive-related sources for Neopreme cememt
and Aqualseal type products?

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RayC - 07 Jan 2004 19:47 GMT

> I've had the same problem with dive shops from Main/New Hampshire
> to Florida. This might be a case where buying from a high-volume,
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> Does anyone know of non-dive-related sources for Neopreme cememt
> and Aqualseal type products?

Aquaseal was originally sold by a different distributor as
"Shoe Goo" and can be found in some shoe shops, skateboard
shops, sporting goods stores, etc. It costs around $5 per
3.7 oz tube. Cotol (the original mix) was repackaged
tolulene ... available from the hardware/paint store.

I can't help you on the neoprene cement...sorry.

Just my $.02

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Matthias Voss - 07 Jan 2004 21:42 GMT

Charlie Hammond schrieb:

> >> The other day, I bought a tube of Aquaseal and Cotol.
> >> When I got home, I noticed that the Cotol had, rather than
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> Does anyone know of non-dive-related sources for Neopreme cememt
> and Aqualseal type products?

Aquasure/-seal is basically a polyurethane glue.

I now prefer similar stuff from Weicon. Remains much more elastic,
bonding property at least the same.

Best Neoprene cement imHo is "black witch", but there are 2 component
glues which are stronger. Those which are used in transport bands for
sand, gravel etc. are perfect.

Matthias

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