the real deal on using UHMW for athome gloves

[bpz]

i bought a nice 12x24 inch sheet of 5/16" UHMW PE from mcmaster-carr about a month or two back. i have cut a few sets of pucks for homemade slide gloves from it, and finally have a set that is shaped how i want. however, the one problem i continually run into is that no adhesive or adhesive method will keep them attached to my damn gloves.

first i tried an older pair of leather palmed/fingered work gloves i've had for a few years. they were used for light work but weren't dirty...rather broken in and very comfortable. i roughed up one side of the UHMW with a screwdriver, it's very course, which i assumed would help with the glueing. i attached the plastic to these gloves with some stuff called Stik n Seal i got at Home Depot. applied it generously, put some heavy stuff on top of the gloves and let them dry for 2 days. they turned out super nice, but after a few sessions the pieces were falling off.

i then went out and bought a nice pair of $15 synthetic leather work gloves from Home Depot...super comfortable, i love wearing these. i also picked up a tube of Amazing Goop, which listed plastic and leather in its list of things it sticks to. tried making another pair with these ingredients, came out with the same result. a comfortable and attractive glove, however the pucks fell off in another week.

went to Home Depot one more time after being sick and tired of wasting all this money. bought another pair of leather work gloves and a tube of Gorilla Glue, which i had reccomended to me on another forum. same process, same results. which leaves me here. frustrated after about a month and stranded without sliding gloves.

does anyone here use plain old UHMW sheets acquired from mcmcaster-carr for their homemade sliding gloves? know anyone who does? please share your adhesive of choice so i can get a rideable pair of gloves set up for myself. through searching here and many other sites thru google, i've seen many reccomendations for melting the plastic and then applying to the glove. i posted this idea on NCDSA.com, only to be turned away saying that UHMW doesn't melt like normal cutting board will. basically everyone at NCDSA reccomended UHMW polyethylene for gloves, but nobody seems to actually use it for gloves, beacuse i get no responses on how to attach it to the gloves. please help!

[AGENT WD-40]

my favorite way is to use Contact Cement...you can get this at Home Depot for like 3 bucks...it is super strong and it has held my pucks on for about 4-5 months and it is still strong...i highly recommend this, hope it works for you

Follow the directions for the best results...after i join them, i usually put some weight on them and let them sit for 12-24 hours...

[MalakaiKingston]

please help!

I use UHMW as well as polycarbonate both from McMaster

this is how I do it and I have never had a puck fall off under "normal" conditions.

Scour the sides of the pucks you plan on gluing with a razor or course sandpaper.

Lay down a thick coat of shoo goo on the puck and on the rigid side of industial velcro even if it is adhesive us the glue. Let them sit for a few minutes and then put the velcro on the puck, smooth out the puck and trim the velcro off the edges of the puck. Put down a piece of cardboard and put the 2 puck you just glued. now put something super heavy on the pucks make sure it is level or the pucks will slide. After ten minutes combe back and wipe off any excess glue. Replace the heavy thing (I use my toolbox) and leave it for 24 hours, check back to make sure it doesn't slide at all.

for the glove side more or less the same thing show goo the glove and shoe goo the velcro (flexible side) let them sit for 5 minutes then put the velcro on the glove. put somehthing heavy on it and leave it for 24 hours and make sure it doesn't shift.

that should solve your problem...

with home made gloves when the puck wears down I just melt a new puck on the burners on my stove and when it is halfway melted I put it on the old puck...

[butters]

glue? dont glue your gloves together, just screw them down. i put 1 piece of Ouiji board (just regular board game material) on the inside and 1 more piece under the pucks. then i used 5/8" screws thru the inside of the glove to keep the puck good and steady. the inside piece of wood keeps the screws from pulling thru.


im not sure about the characteristics of UHMW, but you could try melting it also.

[MalakaiKingston]

glue? dont glue your gloves together

Glue and velcro man, I don't know about you but I go through pucks like you wouldn't believe. Having a puck screwed in means replacing the puck with screws. Glue and velcro means I can swap pucks mid session.

[AGENT WD-40]

Glue and velcro man, I don't know about you but I go through pucks like you wouldn't believe. Having a puck screwed in means replacing the puck with screws. Glue and velcro means I can swap pucks mid session.

glue and velcro are definitely the best way...cheap, comfortable, and very easy to replace...bpizzle if you want excellent advice, listen to malakai, he is a sliding master

[MalakaiKingston]

sliding master

F, Sergio Yuppie, Cliff Coleman and Faltown are slide masters just to name a few. I am at most a student of slide. Much respect Agent

As a follow up of the screwing pucks in as opposed to velcro and glue. When you slide over a road deformation, cats eyes, pot holes, man holes and whatnot. I want my puck to come off because at least I am still sliding and my arm doesn't stop moving or rip my whole glove off. Witht the velcro the puck can move and sometimes it doesn't even come off it just pulled a little and the velro keeps it on. worst case scenario your puck comes all the way off and you are still protected (and sliding) with the glove.

Now that being said one of our crew uses a single velcro strap palm puck and he has 1/2" polycarbonate (that stuff does NOT wear) drilled onto the glove. The edges are graduated at an angle about 1/2" inch so he can slide over most anything. As well the strap is velcro so if his puck grabs he will still have the velcro as a safe release in case it tries to take his arm.

[surfinsmiley]

I`ve not tried this but......

Use the blow torch method to melt on some regular cuting board material as a base and then use velcro to secure the cutting board to the uhmw material as a second layer. You still have the ability to lose the uhmw in the event of hitting something on the road but also have the cutting board melted on as a back-up.

Best of both worlds! Maybe!