Rehabbing SS Push Blocks

wdelliott · Post by **wdelliott** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:26 am

I'm needing to rehab my SS push blocks and am looking for ideas. My SS push blocks are old (grey) and the rubber on the bottom is deteriorating. I'm trying to decide with what to replace the bottoms. The original material looked like some type of foam/rubbery material.

Cork is an idea.

I welcome suggestions.

benush26 · Post by **benush26** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:22 am

I have push blocks whose "foam" has seen better days and I considered the rubber material that I see used to keep wood pieces from sliding when sanding and routing.

Like this

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page ... te=ROCKLER

After looking at it, I think it is very similar to the product sold at discount stores as non-slip shelf liner.

Some good two part epoxy to hold it to the blocks.

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:27 am

Lee Valley sells sheets of the self adhesive gripping rubber.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=67844&cat=1,43456,43465

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:54 am

All of my gray push blocks have been retrofitted with "mouse pads". They work as good as when brand new.

dgale · Post by **dgale** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:34 am

tdubnik wrote:Lee Valley sells sheets of the self adhesive gripping rubber.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=67844&cat=1,43456,43465

I like those hockey pucks they are selling - I can see those coming in pretty handy

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:43 am

dgale wrote:I like those hockey pucks they are selling - I can see those coming in pretty handy

Yes, I like them too. I bought a set along with the precut friction discs and I like them better than the normal bench cookies. They are a little heavier and tend to stay put better.

bffulgham · Post by **bffulgham** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:37 am

dusty wrote:All of my gray push blocks have been retrofitted with "mouse pads". They work as good as when brand new.

I like Dusty's solution and am going to give it a try to rehab the 3 push blocks I've got.

I have a roll of the no-slip shelf liner stuff that I use as a sanding mat. I don't think it will work as well as the mouse pad idea because the shelf liner stuff 'absorbs' dust and looses its tackiness. Beating the crap out of it seems to help for a bit. But, don't like the idea of a push block loosing it's grip.

bobgroh · Post by **bobgroh** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:00 pm

The hardware stores, big box stores, etc all have those self adhesive 'no slip' disks - they should work well on the push block.

tgamel · Post by **tgamel** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:30 pm

dusty wrote:All of my gray push blocks have been retrofitted with "mouse pads". They work as good as when brand new.

Now that is a pretty smart idea, I have a few old wore out mouse pads that would make great pads for push blocks. Take two old things and put them together and you have two refurb projects rolled into one. Now that's what I call recycling.

Todd