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TooTallTim
Loctite 480 is basically "Superglue" (Cyanoacrylate) with some black rubber dust mixed in. Quality is excellent but price is oriented at industrial users--- expensive. A number of vendors make similar "good enough" non-industrial products including "Superglue Corp". Their 19030 costs a very tiny fraction of 480. Normal hobby grade Cyanoacrylate (as sold by craft and hobby shops) for the application discussed here (sealing slits) is quite sufficient. One is using such a tiny amount to bound the rubber so nothing to be "brittle" or "crack" (other than the rubber itself that might have degenerated sufficiently from the elements to no longer be sufficiently resilient).