Originally Posted by
chucky
Maybe so, but the point you're missing is that the common name for "vulcanizing fluid" is "rubber cement". So even if there's an ambiguity between non-vulcanizing vs vulcanizing rubber cement, the only people that call it "vulcanizing fluid" are snobby bicycle mechanics.
In fact, rubber cement and vulcanizing fluid are the same thing...but as always be careful about quality because sometimes products aren't what they're advertised to be.
We're debating semantics rather than the actual stuff itself. Try an experiment yourself with a "rubber cement" product that's sold for tyre-repair. Then do the same patching with Elmer's "rubber cement" marketed for office stationary. After a day of curing, try peeling off the patches and tell us if there's a difference in the behavior.
Most likely if you get "rubber cement" in a box or tin that's marketed with rubber patches intended for tube & tyre repair, you're getting a chemical that vulcanizes rubber (aside from some of the no-name patch kits I mentioned earlier). Since it's a solvent, vulcanizing fluid "rubber cement" for patch kits dries to nothing when smeared on a piece of paper. Elmer's rubber-cement on the other hand is a glue that sticks to two pieces of paper (interdigitation) and it will dry to a rubbery layer that's easily peeled and rubbed off later.
If you really want to, we can pull up the chemical structures and composition of these two different products if you wish.