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Need Barge Rubber Cement Supplier

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Okay all you saddlemakers.....I am replacing some wool on saddle skirts.

I am out of rubber cement. Who supplies Barge rubber cement?

I do not want what Tandy carries because I heard it is not as good a grade as Barge.

I was told never to use contact cement on wool/skirts as it is then hard to get them off for replacement in the future. Is this still the status quo?

Any one recommend another brand besides Barge?

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Bev,

Some use contact cement and some use rubber cement. I use rubber cement, and buy in small quantiuties to keep it fresh. I buy Elmers rubber cement in a pint can from whatever hardware or office supply store I happen to be near. I haven't found it that much different than Barge. I have had some of the brown clearish bottles of rubber cement be thick and unuseable when I got them. Likewise some other brands just weren't as good as Elmers.

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Regular yellow Barge is all i have ever used to glue sheepskin to the skirt before i sew them. Never had a problem getting the old ones off afterwards. I did use some car headliner spay glue one time when i was out of Barge and it worked fine to.

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You can get Barge brand rubber cement from Montana Leather. They also carry a brand called Petronio's that is supposed to be even better. I think it's still made with toulene.

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i'm not sure about the tandy stuff, as i'm in california, and am always kinda leery about the 'newew-lower-voc-better-for-you-' stuff that keeps coming out (well nolt always, i guess, but def. when it comes to glues/contact cement at least), i've used the dap/weldwood contact cement for quite a while, you can still get it just about any hardware store, heck, even wallymart had it in the 3oz brown plastic bottles, and 16oz cans as of last night... as i remember, the pint can was like $5 or 6 bucks... still has all of the lovely toluene/acetone/hexane/etc... in it...head_hurts_kr.gif ...good luck on the hunt...

eric

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All four chapmakers we had, preferred Petronio's for rubber cement. I needed some at home one day and got some Best or maybe Best Test rubber cement from an office supply store and I thought it was far superior to the Petronio's. It seemed to have more rubber without being thicker somehow.

Kevin

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Thanks everyone for the input. I think I will try Elmer's brand and if not satisfied I'll be calling Montana Leather.

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