Permatex 25905 Contact Cement, 1.5 oz., 1.5 Ounce

I used this to attach a tiny piece of cork to the adjustment foot of a saxophone key. Worked like a charm.

I bought and first used this a month and a half ago, gluing new rubber to the bottoms of my beloved old Brooks Glycerin running shoes, then patching some clothing and adding a handle to a water bottle. I was immediately impressed, but wanted to wait to see how the fixes held up over time before I wrote a review.'In the 3rd photo (photo on the right), you see my running shoe repair some 4mm black shoe sole rubber; 2 strips on the left, 3 on the right. The shoe with 2 black strips was done 6 weeks and 100 miles ago; the repair I did today has 3 black strips. You can see the rubber has worn smooth on the left, whereas on the right, it still has treads. Under heavy use, the cement has held firm..The photo in the middle is of my favorite shorts - ancient and disintegrating but I love them. The patch material was some cloth tape (I think people might use it for hemming)? Two rectangular patches are marked with little black arrows to the left of each patch. I ignored the Permatex instructions on the tube, applying a small smear of glue around each hole, smearing it around a bit with the cloth tape and pressing them together for about a minute. The glue on my fingers balled up like rubber cement and just rubbed off.The next day, I applied a little more cement under the patch corners with a flat toothpick and held that in place for another minute. Voila! The cement dried flexible and has held to this day.'In the 1st photo (most recent cement use on the left), you are looking at a water bottle I modified about a month ago so I could carry it on long runs. I attached the handle (strapping material with velcro closure) using 4 black zip ties. This is where I was most impressed with the cement. After I made 2 loops with the 4 zip ties and tightened them around the water bottle, rather than cut off the ends of the 4 zip ties, I bent them back on themselves so as to make a small loop and glued them down. Remarkably, although it took substantial pressure to bend those ties 360 degrees, the Permatex cement made a solid bond after only a few minutes of hold time. When I am not holding it, the water bottle hangs on clips (one of which is attached to the zip tie loop) as I run and yet the cement is still holding.

Worked well to reattach a strip of countertop laminate. It flows well but only for a really short time so it's tricky to spread over a larger area. I was using a foam brush and the cement got tacky quickly and was tearing at the foam brush.

I used this to re-adhere the laminate front of a kitchen cabinet shelf. Worked perfectly.

WHOA ! ! ! This stuff is strong when dried !

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The glue is really watery and runs like crazy. This would work much better if it were sold in a bottle or can with a screwed on stick-brush cap instead of in a squeeze tube. The squeeze tube offered very little to zero control over where and how much glue to apply on your work pieces. The glue itself worked well as long as you let the glue dry completely on the work pieces before assemblage. Be sure to mark and preposition your work piece before pressing them together as they will stick to each other upon contact - that's why it's called contact cement. Once the pieces make contact with each other, it'll be very difficult to remove or reposition them.Also, it's too bad that they didn't make a clear glue. The glue comes out in a brownish color and stays that way. Using lacquer thinner to clean up residual as per their instructions does work, but on white or light color work pieces, you might end up with noticeable dark color line along the repaired crack. A clear glue would have been less noticeable.