C1 AIM Cements and Compounds and modern equivalents

[Donald H.]

I've gone through the AIM for my 1960 looking for part number references to the various cements, sealers, and compounds used throughout. The attached PDF document listed all by the referenced part number from the AIM and the AIM section and sheet number for where I found them and what they were used for.

Some are fairly obvious, but I am trying to figure out the modern equivalents, or what I should use as I put my 1960 back together. I would greatly appreciate an insight from those of you who have done these restoration for much longer than me, as this is my first.

Some of the most obvious ones are:


3711175 Plastic Adhesive Cement - panel adhesive of which there are a number to choose from today

369016 Cement. This is contact cement

Some of the others have me confused unless GM used different part numbers for essentially the same cement/compound. For example:


3710409 Compound, 466943 Cement, and 3736295 Compound - These all seem to be in areas where dumb-dumb (strip caulk) would have been used. Did GM use the same part number for the same cement/compound in difference sections?


3686628 Compound - The Spring 2011 Restorer article had what I believe is a modern equivalent for this one.


3709786 Cement - Don't have a clue on this one.
Again, does anyone have modern equivalents for all of the part numbers?

Thanks,

[Adam S.]

Re: C1 AIM Cements and Compounds and modern equivalents


Donald, I used the following, there are other medthods to achive the same finish as well.
369016 Cement. This is contact cement. I used 3m yellow (grilla snot) & formika panel adheasive.



3710409 Compound, 466943 Cement, and 3736295 Compound = dumb dumb. just different colors used, Some black, gray & white.
I used black 3m strips & refrigeration supply house white strips dumb dumb.
hope this helped a little for U.

[Donald H.]

Re: C1 AIM Cements and Compounds and modern equivalents

Adam,

Makes sense that the different color dumb-dumb would have different part numbers. I do recall when taking the car apart that I saw gray and black insome of the different areas

Thanks
Don

[Dan D.]

Re: C1 AIM Cements and Compounds and modern equivalents

What I found on my 57 was black on the firewall stuff, and gray in the doors. Don't know why they would use 2 or 3 different colors. More part numbers and stock. Black is all one needs. -Dan-

[Donald H.]

Re: C1 AIM Cements and Compounds and modern equivalents

What I found on my 57 was black on the firewall stuff, and gray in the doors. Don't know why they would use 2 or 3 different colors. More part numbers and stock. Black is all one needs. -Dan-

Yes, I found the same, gray around the door stuff and black on firewall and where the windshield assembly had some it was black. I will probably just use black, although, I did find the Norton does make gray.

Thanks,

Don