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At least 50% of all Cow Gum ended up where you didn’t want it, and had to be cleaned from your artwork with a Cow Gum rubber that looked a lot like a shoolboy’s collection of bogies. This was actually just a ball of used Cow Gum built up like a snow ball – but designers and artworkers would take great pride in having the largest balls of Cow Gum for the purpose. Eventually, these would become too large to be useful, and would have to be discarded – but fortunately they had the redeeming quality of bouncing like the most powerful rubber ball you’ve ever seen.
Rubber cement (cow gum in British English) is an adhesive made from elastic polymers (typically latex) mixed in a solvent such as acetone, hexane, heptane or toluene to keep it fluid enough to be used. Can you still buy cow gum?
Why do you have to be 18 to buy rubber cement?
Of course it was also used to create some fantastic illustrations – and I have to say it was immensely satisfying when the pen worked and everything went right. It’s hard to look at a line on your computer screen and take the same pride in how perfect it is. Copydex Latex Glue Adhesive is the perfect glue for bonding fabrics, as well as paper and card. It is the ideal, affordable choice for upholsterers, designers and crafters for repairing clothing, upholstery, making toys, puppets and collages. This child friendly glue is manufactured from latex dissolved in water. Does Copydex go off? Copydex tends to disintegrate after a few years, if you can wait that long. Why do you have to be 18 to buy rubber cement? You need a pen that is easy and clean to use, where changing to a different width is simple, and that will work reliable every time you need it. You need a pen that will work seamlessly with your drawing board and ruler to give a perfectly level and straight line. Rubber cement is favoured in handicrafts applications, where easy and damage-free removal of adhesive is desired. For example, rubber cement is used as the marking fluid in erasable pens. [4]
The Cow on the tin wasn’t a reference to the animal, but apparently to Mr Cow who invented it. It’s character and properties were similar to Copydex (Blue Peter fans) but with the added advantage of being spirit based – which made it cleaner to use and resulted in a mild high after an all-night artworking session.
What is Copydex glue?
It’s not available anymore they stopped making it when the Apple Mac took over. You can buy alternatives and they even come in the famous red and white tin, but why would you bother when it doesn’t say ‘Cow’ across the front? Is Copydex the same as rubber cement?
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