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Self Adhesive Sponge Tech Sheet

Specification Sheet

SPECIFICATION SHEET

 

 

DA320 Expanded Closed Cell Sponge

 

 

 

DA320

Black closed cell EPDM/CR sponge.

 

 

Requirement/Specification

Specification Limits

Typical Value

 

Size – skin/skin (mm)

2000 x 1000 x 54 (+/- 4)

 

 

Compression  @ 25% Deflection (kPa) ASTM D1056-00

35 TO 65

43

 
 

Compression Deflection @ 50% (kPa)  ASTM D1056-00

80 – 160

112

 

Density (kg/M³) ISO 845-95

120 +/- 20

122

 

Compression Set (50%22h20ºC )          ASTM D1056-00                                 

25% Max.

19.1%

 

Water absorption, max. change in weight (%)    ASTM D1056-00

10

0.8

 

Heat Ageing, Change in Compression Deflection, 168 hrs @ 70 º C

 + / – 30%

 PASS

 

Flammability     FMVSS 302

 Burn Rate < 100mm

 PASS

 

Flammability     UL94 HBF

 

  PASS¹

 

Elongation at Break (%)    ISO 1798-7

N/A

>180

 

Tensile Strength (KN/M²)  ISO 1798-7

N/A

> 500

 

Temperature Range  (Low – High)

N/A

-40 TO + 70 ºC.

 

High Intermittent

N/A

 +100 ºC.

 

Resistance to Air + UV

EXCELLENT

 

 

Resistance to Oil

POOR

 

 

Resistance to Acids

GOOD

 

 

Environmental Protection

CFC AND HFC FREE / CAN BE RECYCLED

 

 

Specification

ASTM D1056-00 AFNOR 99-211

2A2    B2C            2CO8/3C08²    B3 C2 

 
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What is Rubber

Rubber

Think of rubber and you probably think of elastic bands, car tires, or pencil erasers. But this super-stretchy material actually finds its way into tens of thousands of different products—everything from rubber stamps and waterproof shoes to surfing wetsuits, swimming caps, and dishwasher hoses. Rubber, which has been commonly used for over 1000 years, once came entirely from natural sources; now rubber products are just as likely to be made artificially in chemical plants. That’s largely because we can’t produce enough natural rubber to meet all our needs. And that, in turn, is because rubber is so fantastically useful. Let’s take a closer look at one of the world’s most amazing materials!

What is rubber?

When people talk about “rubber”, they don’t usually specify what kind. Although natural rubber and synthetic rubber are similar in some ways, they’re made by entirely different processes and chemically quite different.

Natural rubber

Natural rubber is made from a runny, milky white liquid called latex that oozes from certain plants when you cut into them. (Common dandelions, for example, produce latex; if you snap off their stems, you can see the latex dripping out from them. In theory, there’s no reason why we couldn’t make rubber by growing dandelions, though we’d need an awful lot of them) Although there are something like 200 plants in the world that produce latex, over 99 percent of the world’s natural rubber is made from the latex that comes from a tree species called Hevea brasiliensis, widely known as the rubber tree. This latex is about one third water and one third rubber particles held in a form known as a colloidal suspension. Natural rubber is a polymer of isoprene (also known as 2-methylbuta-1,3-diene) with the chemical formula (C5H8)n. To put it more simply, it’s made of many thousands of basic C5H8 units (the monomer of isoprene) loosely joined to make long, tangled chains. These chains of molecules can be pulled apart and untangled fairly easily, but they spring straight back together if you release them—and that’s what makes rubber elastic.

Photo: Left: Rubber bands are a very familiar everyday use of latex rubber. Right: Guayule: one of many plants from which rubber can be made. Photo by Peggy Greb courtesy of US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS).

Synthetic rubbers

Synthetic rubbers are made in chemical plants using petrochemicals as their starting point. One of the first (and still one of the best known) is neoprene (the brand name for polychloroprene), made by reacting together acetylene and hydrochloric acid. Emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (E-SBR), another synthetic rubber, is widely used for making vehicle tires.

For the rest of this article, we’ll concentrate mostly on natural rubber.

How is rubber made?

It takes several quite distinct steps to make a product out of rubber. First, you have to gather your latex from the rubber trees using a traditional process called rubber tapping. That involves making a wide, V-shaped cut in the tree’s bark. As the latex drips out, it’s collected in a cup. The latex from many trees is then filtered, washed, and reacted with acid to make the particles of rubber coagulate (stick together). The rubber made this way is pressed into slabs or sheets and then dried, ready for the next stages of production.

By itself, unprocessed rubber is not all that useful. It tends to be brittle when cold and smelly and sticky when it warms up. Further processes are used to turn it into a much more versatile material. The first one is known as mastication (a word we typically use to describe how animals chew food). Masticating machines “chew up” raw rubber using mechanical rollers and presses to make it softer, easier to work, and more sticky. After the rubber has been masticated, extra chemical ingredients are mixed in to improve its properties (for example, to make it more hardwearing). Next, the rubber is squashed into shape by rollers (a process called calendering) or squeezed through specially shaped holes to make hollow tubes (a process known as extrusion). Finally, the rubber is vulcanized (cooked): sulfur is added and the rubber is heated to about 140°C (280°F).

Photo: In 1939, American inventor Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) developed the vulcanization (heat-treatment) process that makes rubber harder and more durable. He’d spent many years as a struggling inventor, trying desperately to turn rubber into a useful product, when he accidentally dropped some rubber on a hot stove and watched it “cook” itself into a much more useful form: the black, vulcanized material most of us know as rubber to this day. Despite developing one of the most useful materials of all time, Goodyear never made much money from his invention and died deeply in debt. Fortunately, his name lives on in the Goodyear tire company—and his superb contribution to materials technology has never been forgotten. Photo courtesy of US Library of Congress.

Where does rubber come from?

As its name suggests, the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis originally came from Brazil, from where it was introduced to such countries of the Far East as Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, China, and Vietnam. During World War II, supplies of natural rubber from these nations were cut off just when there was a huge demand from the military—and that accelerated the development of synthetic rubbers, notably in Germany and the United States. Today, most natural rubber still comes from the Far East, while Russia and its former republics, France, Germany, and the United States are among the world’s leading producers of synthetic rubber. The world’s largest single source of latex rubber is the Harbel Rubber Plantation near Monrovia in Liberia, established in the 1920s and 1930s by the Firestone tire company.

 

Rubber—the kind you get from a tree—starts off as white and runny latex. Even when it’s set into a product, this latex-based, natural rubber is very squashy, pretty smelly, and not very useful. The kind of rubber you see in the world around you, in things like car and bicycle tires, is vulcanized: cooked with sulfur (and often other additives) to make it harder, stronger, and longer lasting.

So what’s the difference between raw, latex rubber and cooked, vulcanized rubber? In its natural state, the molecules in rubber are long chains that are tangled up and only weakly linked together. It’s relatively easy to pull them apart—and that’s why latex rubber is so stretchy and elastic. When latex is vulcanized, the added sulfur atoms help to form extra bonds between the rubber molecules, which are known as cross-links. These work a bit like the trusses you see on a bridge, tying the molecules together and making them much harder to pull apart.

Artwork: Top: Natural, latex rubber is easy to pull apart because the long polymer molecules it contains (made from carbon and hydrogen atoms) are only weakly linked together. Bottom: When natural rubber is cooked with sulfur, the sulfur atoms form extra cross-links (shown here as yellow bars) “bolting” the molecules together and making them much harder to pull apart. This process is called vulcanization and it makes the strong, durable, black rubber we see on things like car tires.

What do we use rubber for?

Rubber is elastic and water-resistant, traps air (so it floats), and doesn’t conduct electricity. In its unprocessed form, it’s used in such things as adhesives, contraceptives, and latex balloons. Vulcanized rubber is harder, less elastic, and more durable and has many more uses, from vehicle tires to hose pipes and from artificial hearts to the waterproof gaskets that seal the doors on washing machines. Tires are still the biggest single use of rubber in the world. About half of all the world’s rubber ends up wrapped around the wheels of cars, bicycles, and trucks!

Photo: Half of all rubber is used in vehicles tires. The rubber in this tire has been vulcanized to make it extremely hard-wearing.

A brief history of rubber

  • 1000CE: Indians living in Central and South America have learned how to made waterproof clothes and shoes using latex from rubber trees. They call rubber trees “cahuchu” (crying wood), which is why the French still call rubber caoutchouc (pronounced “cow-chew”) today.
  • 1731: During an expedition to South America, French explorer Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701–74) sends back samples of rubber to Europe, prompting intense scientific interest.
  • 1770: The discoverer of oxygen, English scientist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), finds he can use pieces of rubber to erase the marks made by pencil on paper. In England, erasers are still widely called “rubbers” today.
  • 1791: Englishman Samuel Peal develops a method of waterproofing cloth with a rubber solution.
  • 1818: Scottish medical student James Syme (1799–1870) uses rubber-coated cloth to make raincoats.
  • 1823: Englishman Charles Macintosh learns of Syme’s discovery, refines it, and patents it, earning fame and fortune as the inventor of the rubberized, waterproof coat. Waterproof coats have been known as Macintoshes ever since.
  • 1839: American inventor Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) accidentally discovers how to vulcanize rubber after dropping a piece of the material (which has been treated with sulfur) onto a hot stove.
  • 1876: Intrepid English explorer Sir Henry Wickham (1846–1928) smuggles thousands of seeds from the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis out of Brazil and back to England. The English grow the seeds at Kew Gardens just outside London and export them to various Asian countries, establishing the giant plantations that now supply much of the world’s rubber.
  • 1877: US rubber manufacturer Chapman Mitchell develops the first commercial process for recycling rubber from scratch.
  • 1882: John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921) invents the pneumatic (air-filled) rubber tire. The development of gasoline-powered cars with rubber tires leads to a huge increase in the need for rubber.
  • 1883: US chemist George Oenslager (1873–1956) develops a much faster way of vulcanizing rubber using chemicals called organic (carbon-based) accelerators.
  • 1930: A team of US chemists at the DuPont company, led by Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), develop a revolutionary synthetic rubber called polychloroprene and sold as neoprene. (Shortly afterward, the same group developed an even more revolutionary material: nylon.)
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Contact Adhesive Data Sheet

 

 

  • Highly Flammable
  • Irritating to eyes and skin
  • Toxic to aquatic organisms
  • Vapours may cause drowsiness & Dizziness
  • Keep away from sources of ignition
  • No Smoking
  • Avoid contact with skin and eyes
  • In case of contact with eyes, rinse immediately

and seek medical advice

  • Wear gloves
  • If swallowed, seek medical advice and show this label-

                rinse mouth with water (only if person is conscious)

  • Use in well ventilated area

 

USES:

  • For bonding a large variety of materials, including ;
  • Rubber, Hardboard, Veneers, Cork, Wood, Formica,
  • Melamine, Glass, Carpet, Cloth & Leather

 

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

  • Materials to be bonded must be sound, clean, dry, smooth and free from oil & grease
  • Stir well before use, or shake the container vigorously
  • Apply a thin coat of adhesive to both surfaces using a brush
  • Allow 10 – 20 minutes until the adhesive is dry to the touch
  • Position the coated surfaces accurately
  • Press firmly together for a few minutes to ensure overall contact
  • Final bond is resistant to water and oil, mild acids and alkalis after 24 hours

 

AFTER USE

  • Tools can be cleaned with acetone

 

LIMITATIONS

  • Do NOT use with the following materials:
  • Expanded Polystyrene, polypropylene and polyethylene
  • A small sample test is recommended if unsure

 

 

 

 

  • Highly Flammable
  • Irritating to eyes and skin
  • Toxic to aquatic organisms
  • Vapours may cause drowsiness & Dizziness
  • Keep away from sources of ignition
  • No Smoking
  • Avoid contact with skin and eyes
  • In case of contact with eyes, rinse immediately

and seek medical advice

  • Wear gloves
  • If swallowed, seek medical advice and show this label-

                rinse mouth with water (only if person is conscious)

  • Use in well ventilated area

 

USES:

  • For bonding a large variety of materials, including ;
  • Rubber, Hardboard, Veneers, Cork, Wood, Formica,
  • Melamine, Glass, Carpet, Cloth & Leather

 

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

  • Materials to be bonded must be sound, clean, dry, smooth and free from oil & grease
  • Stir well before use, or shake the container vigorously
  • Apply a thin coat of adhesive to both surfaces using a brush
  • Allow 10 – 20 minutes until the adhesive is dry to the touch
  • Position the coated surfaces accurately
  • Press firmly together for a few minutes to ensure overall contact
  • Final bond is resistant to water and oil, mild acids and alkalis after 24 hours

 

AFTER USE

  • Tools can be cleaned with acetone

 

LIMITATIONS

  • Do NOT use with the following materials:
  • Expanded Polystyrene, polypropylene and polyethylene
  • A small sample test is recommended if unsure

 

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Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at {{config path=”trans_email/ident_general/email”}}

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to {{config path=”general/store_information/address”}}.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE name COOKIE Description
CART The association with your shopping cart.
CATEGORY_INFO Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
COMPARE The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
CURRENCY Your preferred currency
CUSTOMER An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
CUSTOMER_AUTH An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
CUSTOMER_INFO An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS Stores the Customer Segment ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
FRONTEND You sesssion ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW Allows guests to edit their orders.
LAST_CATEGORY The last category you visited.
LAST_PRODUCT The most recent product you have viewed.
NEWMESSAGE Indicates whether a new message has been received.
NO_CACHE Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
POLL The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
POLLN Information on what polls you have voted on.
RECENTLYCOMPARED The items that you have recently compared.
STF Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS The products that you have recently viewed.
WISHLIST An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
WISHLIST_CNT The number of items in your Wishlist.