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can anyone suggest a UK available glue to repair the track on this Lone Star tractor , the tracks have gone very brittle with age and one had a piece break off , I thought about rubber solution from a bicycle puncture repair kit but don't know how it would react
thanks in anticipation

If you mean a contact cement (rubber based contact glue), I see no reason why it would not work. Super Glue gel will also work. For jobs where super glue needs to have faster drying speed, you can purchase an accelerator agent.

thanks Tinman , the rubber glue I was thinking of is a contact one and basically melts the two surfaces together ,would the fact that the tracks have gone brittle make any difference

The tracks will have become brittle because they have lost a sufficient amount of plasticiser to raise the rubber's glass transition temperature above room temperature. If the tracks are crumbly as well, then a degree of depolymersisation (devucanisation) has also occurred. However, if the bonding essentially consists of "melting the two surfaces together", then I see no reason why it should not still work with the rubber in it's altered state.
Is there any chance you could turn the broken track over so that the gap (and any eventual repair) are facing downwards and therefore out of sight?

I am going to try to remove it when I repair it just have to get a puncture repair kit ....not owned one since I was about 13 if my old one is still at my mums I think it may have dried out by now

fixer wrote:I am going to try to remove it when I repair it just have to get a puncture repair kit ....not owned one since I was about 13 if my old one is still at my mums I think it may have dried out by now

I would think so too........as that repair kit must be about 60 years old if my calculations are right. Could be worth a lot of dosh Reg to the right Puncture repair kit collector though.....is it kit a rare variation/colour???

motorman wrote:

fixer wrote:I am going to try to remove it when I repair it just have to get a puncture repair kit ....not owned one since I was about 13 if my old one is still at my mums I think it may have dried out by now

I would think so too........as that repair kit must be about 60 years old if my calculations are right. Could be worth a lot of dosh Reg to the right Puncture repair kit collector though.....is it kit a rare variation/colour???

it's kit #9 in an orange box

fixer wrote:

motorman wrote:

fixer wrote:I am going to try to remove it when I repair it just have to get a puncture repair kit ....not owned one since I was about 13 if my old one is still at my mums I think it may have dried out by now

I would think so too........as that repair kit must be about 60 years old if my calculations are right. Could be worth a lot of dosh Reg to the right Puncture repair kit collector though.....is it kit a rare variation/colour???

it's kit #9 in an orange box

What a shame Reg, That's a very common variation of the #9 Puncture repair Kit

Pity it wasn't a #33 repair kit in yellow with the guides attached, i am sure i have one of these rarities kicking about somewhere in the shed.....i think i paid a £1 for it

Playing with any rubber materials new or old, I would tend to warm it up with a hair dryer and manipulate it between the finger and thumb, just to bring back some give (always a good tip when plating with various types of tyres), If it has become too hard with age, this may not work and I would just stick the pieces together to complete the look of the tracks until a modern day replacement can be found (Steve Flowers again anyone!).

Ghosty.