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Originally Posted by freebeard
Not familiar with [polymer rubber glue (Mamut from Den Braven, in Continental Europe)]. What I like currently is foaming Gorilla Glue. It's a good gap filler and you can remove it with rubbing alcohol, making it a temporary fastener.
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Mamut High Tack Glue:
Patented by Den Braven, rebranded as Bostik after Bostik took over the original company.
It's not a temporary fastener, after the first 3 hours in summer temps it holds pretty well. Almost fully cured after 1 day. Has the consistency of tyre rubber, does barely flex by hand, unlike RTV silicone. Almost impervious to weather or solvents, it can only be removed by cutting with Stanley knife blade.
Most likely in the US or other continents than Europe there are other glues with similar ability.
The logic of polymer rubber glues: bolt holes
should not be drilled at all, if possible, in places where aero plating is done. Underfloor, wheel arches, axle subframes, under the rear well for the spare wheel. Rust which starts there devours the steel in a few months. So we bond ("weld by glue") a frame of drilled aluminum or hard plastic bars and bolt the sheet to them. Sheets of ABS or aluminum are usually of negligible weight, but glues hold as well as 20-22kgs pe square cm (which translates to >300lbs/sq inch), so they wont break and fall, regardless of speed.