rubber cement

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In those early days, the Archie McPhee team got the word out through its catalog, which was created using an old Pentax SLR film camera, IBM typewriter and rubber cement.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023

“Bob had built an eight- or ten-foot X out of plywood,” Doe recalls, “took it out to the desert, covered it in rubber cement because it burned slower and burned it and filmed it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2020

The fire grew quickly, and firefighters realized that heat was building up in the basement, with the blaze being possibly driven by a pallet of rubber cement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2018

The powder is then mixed with a solvent until it takes on the viscosity of rubber cement: the resulting goop is called spin dope, and can be extruded through a die to create the fibre.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 12, 2017

I had always counted on these friends to loan me the adhesive of my choice, but then, seemingly overnight, their Scotch tape and rubber cement were gone, replaced with odorless computers and spongy mouse pads.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris