I wouldn't seperate it any more, use the brush or you could use the spray can type. Let it dry and use tape to hold it down after you stick them together.

Good Luck

I've found that multiple coats of contact cement work much better than one... three is a good number.

what does that mean? one coat, let dry, another coat, let dry, repeat, then close wrap?

thanks for the replies.

You apply a pretty thin coat of contact cement and let it dry until it's just barely tacky (like me). A cheap paint brush or old toothbrush works to apply it.

That usually takes 15 or 20 minutes, then you repeat that a few times.

Three coats is good, or four sometimes.

After the 3rd coat is just tacky, press it together and work out the lumps.

Contact cement doesn't usually give you second chances - it really grabs, so when you push it together you need to do the best you can to make sure it's aligned, but that wouldn't be a factor in your particular repair.

Good luck!

Thanks a lot MastroSnare and Lucky. I'm going to give it a go.

I'll tell you the way I did a similar job:

Super glue.

Now, some people will say NO! Don't use it! But I did and it worked perfectly. All I did was get a tube of the Super glue gel and then I injected an amount into the seam -spread it around with a thin piece of aluminum. I used blue painter's tape to mask off all the spots where the glue would squeeze back out. When I had enough glue in the void I clamped a length of wood along the seam so that the entire seam would be compressed uniformly and then I waited a few hours -just so that the wrap would have time to conform it's shape back to flat. The next day I removed the clamps and the seam was perfect -like it had never lifted! That was a few years ago and there is still no crystallization or whatever was supposed to go wrong. If it wouldn't have worked so well, then I would never recommend it. But it worked fantastically!