I used 3M Fast Tack trim adhesive for many years. It was in a red and white tube and stuck like nobody's business, and fast. You could glue up a tire and ride it an hour later. Was sold for gluing trim in cars. Probably wasn't the best for long life on expensive tubulars. Here is a source for Fast Tack: http://solutions.3m.com/
Anyway, I will never glue tubulars again. Tufo tape is too damn easy and clean.
Message: 9 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:42:31 -0400 From: Jack Countryman <jcountry@mac.com> Subject: Re: [CR] tubular tire glue To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <C70BE467.465C0%jcountry@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Back when I used tubular tires, in the early to mid 1970s, the independent bike shop in the town where I lived, used to sell us a 3M brand glue...# 151 or 191? The stuff was yellow in color, in white tubes with black printing/labels. The tubes were somewhat larger diameter than the largest toothpaste tubes, but shorter in length. I have no idea what it was made for, or how they got onto selling it for that purpose, but it seemed to work quite well. One tube would last most of us for a few years worth of tire mounting/remounting. Once you had glued a few tires on a rim, you would have a built up base of tacky glue, that allowed tire changes on the road without worries of them coming off on their own, yet they could be rolled off sideways fairly easily when no air was in the tires.
Unfortunately, that bike shop is long gone, the former owner is dead, and the mechanics who worked there when they were college students have long since moved on to other things. I've lost touch with all of them.
Is anyone familiar with the stuff 3M made then to be able to find out what sort of glue this was, what it was made for, current availability, price, etc.?
Bob Freeman
Elliott Bay Bicycles
2116 Western Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
206-441-8144
http://www.elliottbaybicycles.com
http://www.davidsonbicycles.com