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title: 'Make your rubber last: mend it, cold patch method'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-your-rubber-last-mend-it-cold-patch-1942/
description: Five-photograph repair sheet showing hands sanding a rubber sole, coating it with cement, applying an inner-tube patch and pressing it down.
section: Collection
---

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[![Make your rubber last: mend it, cold patch method, 1942 US poster: Five-photograph repair sheet showing hands sanding](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-your-rubber-last-mend-it-cold-patch-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/make-your-rubber-last-mend-it-cold-patch-1942.jpg)

# Make your rubber last: mend it, cold patch method

Five-photograph repair sheet showing hands sanding a rubber sole, coating it with cement, applying an inner-tube patch and pressing it down, with a step beside each. Script reads 'Mend it' over 'Cold patch method'. The technique is faint here; the ring of stars around the title borrows a patriotic symbol for a repair chore (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[on bottle:] 1 lb. CARBON TETRACHLORIDE A.C.S.
• Clean the surfaces to be joined.
Roughen with sandpaper or other
abrasive.
• Coat with rubber cement.
Let stand a few minutes....
then put on a second coat.
MAKE
YOUR RUBBER
LAST
Mend it...
"COLD PATCH
METHOD"
• Remove Holland cloth from a
piece of inner tube patching.
• Put the patch on carefully....
do not try to change its position
once you have placed it.
• Press patch on firmly.
• Hold by weight or clamp
until it is well set.
BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[imprint: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—477986]
```

[← Make your rubber last: garments, raincoats and overshoes](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-your-rubber-last-garments-overshoes-1942/) [Make your rubber last: nipples and rubber sheeting →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-your-rubber-last-nipples-rubber-sheets-1942/)

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