Silly Putty… It sticks to sil-nylon !

amazing!

how did you figure that out?  Home many things did you try before you discovered silly putty?

I’ve found that the only thing that sticks to silicone (or sil-nylon?) is another version of silicone. Enter silicone tape! My local all-everything hardware store sells various colors of 1″ x 36″ rolls of this very cool product (Rescue Tape). It’s quite useful for many disparate applications. Maybe give it a try?

Jerry…  Serendipity at work.  I was looking for a solvent and there was a thread from a person looking for something to remove silly putty that their kid had applied to a silicone cooking implement .  The light came on !  How many things have I tried?  I can’t say for sure but I now have an impressive array of tapes and adhesives collected over the last few years.  There may be some industrial tapes that might work ?? But they aren’t available in small quantities or are too expensive to consider. Or quick. Or easy.

Gary…  Have you tried the siilcone tape?  What I had did not stick to S-N.  Worked good for other things.

-Ken

Ken, I haven’t tried the silicone tape on silnylon. I was just guessing–sorry. I went down to my basement war room just now and tried it–it was a miserable failure!  I recently made a pot lid from a circle cut from a silicone baking sheet. For the “handle” I tried duct tape and regular Scotch tape, and neither would stick to it. But the silicone tape did. It does have some interesting applications, but it must have a different chemical composition than your Silly Putty. I’ll have to get some of that stuff. You know, to see what all it can do.

good one Ken : )

Roger has mentioned some tape that works with silnylon.  Kind of obscure and expensive as I remember.

Maybe he’ll wake up and read this : )

Yes, there are silicone tapes which stick to silnylon. Some are ‘permanent’, some are ‘peel-off’.

The permanent ones make a chemical bond, but it takes 72 hours to cure properly. I use that sort of stuff on my tents.

The peel-off ones are used for masking printed circuit boards during electroplating operations and similar things. They work reasonably well for holding silnylon while sewing. ‘Rescue tape’? Dunno, but if it works and is cheap, great. Silly Putty???? Blimey! The inverse of Blu-Tak.

Cheers

Roger which silicone tapes are you referring to as I’d like to try the more permanent bonding versions?

Hi Damon

I haven’t bought any for a while as I still have several rolls, so my info may be out of date. The search string you want is ‘silicone transfer tape’, or maybe ‘silicone double-sided tape’. I prefer the transfer tape myself as it is more flexible. A bit more expensive than acrylic adhesive tapes, but acrylic will not bond. The adhesive is actually a siloxane polymer.

There are two sorts of silicone tapes. Some make a temporary bond – they are ‘peelable’. Useful for electro-plating etc. Others make a permanent bond but the bond takes about 72 hours to fully cure. That’s what you want.

Reps won’t have much knowledge about these tapes. They may try to offer hi-tack acrylics – don’t bother with them. You will have to do your own research.

Cheers