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    Posted: 23 Jun 20 at 12:26pm
Just finished putting  quite a bit of non slip Pro Grip on an RS 600 using Stormoprene Contact Adhesive. This has worked incredibly well and was rather easier than I expected.  The adhesive is used mainly for manufacture of tubes ion RIBs, so it is waterproof and resilient under long term UV exposure. It is sold by Stormsure in 90g tubes as a single part. The 2 part adhesive comes in larger tins and the small bottle of activator is only essential to use if you are sticking to Hypalon (top end RIBs are made of this material). Also used the adhesive to stick up some rather old wetsuit boots until I can afford to buy some nice new ones. Here is a link to their website...https://stormsure.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=stormoprene
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In my club we (29ers) all use 3M "safety walk" tape on gunwhales and other parts (transom in my case). I just switched from a neoprene-like antislip that was on the boat that I bought secondhand (don't know what product  was exactly) to the 3M tape and I found it awesome.
Easy on the butt for the helm and very good for crew's grip.
 
I just removed the old one, cleaned the surface 2 minutes with abrasive tape, and then put the new tape.
 


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evo stik impact on our racks and deck - try it indoors for a good hit! 
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Originally posted by RS400atC

Try with a little offcut.
The masking tape I put on to control the glue on the deck never seemed to be in quite the right place when it came to gluing.
 
I had the same problem.  You need to be aware that the progrip can shrink slightly in contact with the adhesive.
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We use the self adhesive pro grip on the wings of our 49er. Just make sure the surface is clean and you have keyed it up with some 60-120 grit sand paper. Also using a hot air gun or hairdryer after you have stuck it on will help in the long term. Then if you really fancy finishing it nicely, mask around the pro grip once it is stuck on and sand the edges down. You can use rough sand paper but finish it with some finer stuff and ideally wet/dry. Or sikaflex all the way around but I am not a fan of this way.
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gluing pro grip onto an ovington 29er shouldn't a problem. We have a full progrip deck on the ovi B14 with no issues. We did use the ready glued stuff but i think in the long term the gluing sheets yourself last longer. 
I'd suggest evostik impact adhesive. Lots of prep to get it to work
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Damn! You realised that this was just a cover so that I could go and do some glue-sniffing! Oh well, back to Pritt-Stick it is. 
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I've always used EVO-Stick. In fact I have just pro-gripped my Farr 3.7 with EVO, of course you need to be over 18 to by the stuff these days which can be a bind if you are a youff.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Jun 11 at 3:59pm

I didn't think polyprop was gluable?



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I've used wickes impact adhesive with good results and no problems.  Thixofix works well but is hard to get hold of.
the same, but different...

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