Gold old yellow contact cement(two fairly thin coats applied
inbetween adequate drying time) will glue the cork down(air the hell
out of the van until the toluene odor goes away), but I wonder
if  the cork would withstand the chaffing of feet and tool boxes etc
on the floor?  I have some of the foil bubble stuff down and it helps
augment the Dynamat on the vertical surfaces, but I see definite
chafe spots and will likely have to replace it every few years
despite having a 1/4" sheet of plywood over the floor area to spread
the weight load( I rarely use the middle seat)

The Dynamat has stayed stuck to my vertical surfaces very well over
the last 4 years or so.

DM&FS

At 11:26 AM 12/31/2006, Geza Polony wrote:

>One thing you might try, on the cheap, is roofing emulsion and carpet
>padding. Paint the emulsion on the inside of the body, then stick your
>sound-deadening carpet padding right in it. These materials  will do the job
>fairly well without spending a fortune. You can get the emulsion in silver
>so the finished product looks somewhat professional, too.
>
>Marcel Proust lined the inside of his apartment with cork for sound
>deadening, but I doubt his walls had the contour of the Vanagon body. How
>would you get these tiles to stick permanently to the body? My experience
>with stick down tiles is they work pretty well with the help of gravity, but
>on a car wall, given the heat and vibration, I bet they'd end up falling off
>in no time. That adhesive doesn't amount to much.
>
>If the paint you're using is latex, you might try to find out if it's going
>to stand up to the hot sheet metal on a summer day. Maybe put some on a
>piece of sheet metal, set your oven to 130 F, etc. House walls don't usually
>get that hot. The roofing emulsion I'm talking about is made for aluminum
>roofs on mobile homes and the like.
>
>Geza
>
>
>On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:51:23 -0800, Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET> wrote:
>
> >After last weeks discussion on the secret ingredients in sound dampening
> >"Paint" I've decided to experiment. I've got like ten gallons of unused
> >paint, and also just discovered that Methyl cellulose (wallpaper glue) is
> >commonly used to thicken acrylic paint. So I'll make up a batch of acrylic
> >slurry and try it in my now-stripped van and see how well it works.
> >I think adhesion will be the real factor, but adding the glue should help :)
> >
> >A relative suggested peel and stick cork tiles.
> >
> >With all the stuff ripped out and an AC motor, it is really, really loud
> >inside. Shout to be heard loud.
> >
> >Nathaniel
>
>
>
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