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IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves?

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FlyGuy

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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O..M...-G!! I just remembered! Isodamp sucks! - geoffkait 13:43:32 03/06/23 (0)
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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RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves? - MylesJ 17:05:38 12/13/22 (0)
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.
- https://www.greengluecompany.com/noiseproofing-products/comp (Open in New Window)
RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves? - KanedaK 21:47:13 02/16/21 (10)
Well, looks like this is the first new post in the ISO forum since 2019... ^^
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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.
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      - RE: It would have been much more fitting to honor Peter Belt. Sue was simple a trouble maker. Nt - geoffkait 13:13:48 04/15/21 (0)
        
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      - RE: So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T - geoffkait 03:16:44 04/07/21 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T posted by musetap on April 03, 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 - geoffkait 05:01:11 04/04/21 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So this forum would have been dead even longer than it has-been. Fitting.... N/T posted by musetap on April 03, 2021 at 14:53:17
        
        Drunk again?
- RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves? - geoffkait 08:11:35 02/17/21 (0)
  You probably think this is a real forum about isolation. :-)
RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves? - geoffkait 14:16:43 02/10/21 (2)
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? - FlyGuy 02:33:17 02/11/21 (1)
  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.
  Make It Funky Now!
  - RE: IsoDamp C-1002 Adhesive to fix between MDF shelves? - geoffkait 02:58:29 02/11/21 (0)
    How about the spray adhesive you buy at craft stores or maybe Target? Just enough to make it tacky.

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