the polycyanoacrylate bond line is not an elastomer and imposes its own characteristics on the materials it joins. That bond line will fragment if the materials it joins are stretched significantly. With such limited choices for bonding and coating silicone rubber, alternative approaches would be valuable. In this article, a primer system that makes silicone rubber compatible with most conventional adhesives and coatings, and thus allows technologies developed for other polymers to be applied with minimal modification to silicone rubber is described. That primer system is fast, easy to apply, and inexpensive. Moreover, it has minimal effect on the mechanical properties of the silicone rubber so that two pieces of primed silicone elastomer joined by an elastomeric adhesive will bend and stretch as they did prior to bonding.