[eric1974]

Hi Guys, I have over a long long time made a rubber band ball that is about twice the size of a basketball. Unfortunately, as the rubber bands age, they crack and fall apart...(i'm sure youv'e seen this effect on the rubber bands in your kitchen junk drawer!)

I would like to somehow seal the ball, like with a varnish or some-such, but I know next to nothing about the various different sealers. Is there something you would recommend that would dry clear, create a shell around the ball and, and essentially put it in a permanent stasis?

Any advice is much appreciated!
-Eric

[Thomp]

eric,

i just talked to my uncle the other night and had mentioned the rotten rubber bands we been getting,

I had remembered as a kid that a rubber band would last forever, being raised in Colorado,

well my uncle worked gates rubber company for 30 years so he would be the most likely to know of what i was talking about,, i suspected pollution from car exhaust causing it because we now live next to the new expressway,

but my uncle said it was moisture that caused the rubber bands to rot,
here in central louisiana we get 80% average humidity and a new package of rubber bands start to loose there flex and melt together in less than 6 weeks..

maybe a canning jar or a plastic case and some of them desiccant packet's that come in everything..

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Rubber cement? I know crazy glue works great for rubber to stick together, that how they resize an o-ring, cut it and glue it with c.a.