I cranked on the gas heater with the hangar temperature at 8C early Saturday morning and crossed my fingers. I started gluing in the cockpit carpet on the port side using a 237ml container of LePage Low Odour (Canadian spelling) Contact Cement. This goes on white and turns clear when it is ready to put the contact surfaces together. Well, that little container only got me 1/4 of the way. With the hangar temp up to only 14C late in the afternoon I was still 4C below the required temp per the manufacturer's instructions. Not surprisingly the cement was still white. I bought a 946ml (1 quart) can of LePage Heavy Duty Contact Cement and and left the gas heat on for the night. Encouragingly the instructions said that 15C was good enough for this formulation. So Sunday morning with the hangar positively cooking at 15C (-6C outside) I laid the still white surfaces together and then quickly covered the remaining 3/4 of the carpet and its contact hull surfaces with the new cement. It set up within 20 minutes and I got on with life. Hey, this was fun... look at all those clamps will you?
Gluing carpet with LePage low odour contact cement
Gluing carpet with Lepage heavy duty contact cement
