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IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?

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Posted on February 10, 2021 at 05:47:29
FlyGuy
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 I have decided to upgrade my Hi-Fi rack replace the glass shelves with attractive and musically superior Veneered MDF with IsoDamp between the layers in a constrained layer configuration. The IsoDamp has one sticky adhesive side, however I need to bond it to the upper MDF shelf, so what is the recommended adhesive to bond IsoDamp securely to my MDF that issn't going to damage the IsoDamp and fix it?
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RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on February 10, 2021 at 14:16:43
geoffkait
 If Isodamp is viscoelastic (I.e., soft and rubbery) you don't need to bond it to the top shelf. Or am I missing something?

 

RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on February 11, 2021 at 02:33:17
FlyGuy
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 The IsoDamp is anything but soft and rubber, it is quite firm in fact.

On one side there is a sticky backing, however I want it firmly in contact with both the bottom and top MDF shelf. Thus need an appropriate adhesive so that it is in firm contact with both MDF shelves.
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RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on February 11, 2021 at 02:58:29
geoffkait
 How about the spray adhesive you buy at craft stores or maybe Target? Just enough to make it tacky.

 

RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on February 16, 2021 at 21:47:13
KanedaK
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 Well, looks like this is the first new post in the ISO forum since 2019... ^^

 

RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on February 17, 2021 at 08:11:35
geoffkait
 You probably think this is a real forum about isolation. :-)

 

I thought no one was posting here to honor Sue Kraft, posted on February 17, 2021 at 21:16:33
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 so that she had the last post. A bit like retiring a team jersey, retiring a forum. That would have been fitting.

 

It would have been much more fitting to honor Peter Belt. Sue was simple a trouble maker. Nt, posted on February 18, 2021 at 09:20:38
geoffkait
 Nt

 

So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T, posted on April 3, 2021 at 14:53:17
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RE: So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T, posted on April 4, 2021 at 05:01:11
geoffkait
 Drunk again?

 

RE: So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T, posted on April 7, 2021 at 03:16:44
geoffkait
 Drunk again?

 

RE: It would have been much more fitting to honor Peter Belt. Sue was simple a trouble maker. Nt, posted on April 14, 2021 at 23:15:07
tweaker456
 Unlike yourself g.

 

RE: It would have been much more fitting to honor Peter Belt. Sue was simple a trouble maker. Nt, posted on April 15, 2021 at 13:13:48
geoffkait
 Ouch! That really hurts.

 

Only ONE person crazier than the Belts! Think Ex-Pres who will be Next-Pres this August. nt, posted on June 14, 2021 at 11:08:01
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Ouch! Very ouch!! Nt, posted on June 18, 2021 at 03:37:01
geoffkait
 Nt

 

RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?, posted on December 13, 2022 at 17:05:38
MylesJ
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 Consider Green Glue - I used it to kill noise and vibration by putting it between 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch sheetrock when modifying my listening room. It works well for that.

 

O..M...-G!! I just remembered! Isodamp sucks!, posted on March 6, 2023 at 13:43:32
geoffkait
 I experimented with Isodamp grommets and damping sheets a long time ago, I was looking around for a suitable material during product development. Isodamp stuff looks so cool, super cool blue color, not too hard, not too soft. Should work great, right? Real professional, even the name sounds professional, well, guess what, gentle readers? Whatever this stuff is made of it sucks the life right out of the system. If you're on the prowl for viscoelastic materials you can do much better.

Generally, very hard materials like ceramics and hardened steel are preferred to rubbery materials for most audio application, to allow for rapid evacuation of stored energy, but when you need constrained layer damping there are some good-sounding products out there. But not Sorbothane. Yes, I realize some people are going to say it sounds good in their system.

 

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