Sealant

The Genuine article is STC50550 - £6.58 inc VAT here.

Richard

...and I'll need a tube of that too. :-)

Steve

Which is a 50ml tube of silicone sealant.

You could of course just go to your local hardware store, and buy a 300ml tube for about £2,00.

Well, I wandered into Halfrauds to buy some Hylomar - nil stock. OK I'll buy some Plus Gas because the nuts are bound to need some persuasion. Not nil stock but a discontinued item!!!!

What is the world coming to???

Richard

We have just hammered this out, oil resisting sealant is NOT bathroom sealant.

Steve

Except that the real thing is a Sycoflex type sealant, heat and oil resistant - not the same thing at all......

Richard

... and if you really meant to say Sikaflex, those grades are not even an RTV silicone and most certainly not suitable for the mechanical sealing tasks we have been discussing!

The most common would be Hylomar Blue. Using this stuff is all well and good in an emergency, but there is a danger of blobs of the stuff being squeezed out of the joint on the inside. For diffs this doesn't matter, but on a coolong system it can lead to blocked water ways etc. Personally, I find it a lot easier to lightly grease a "paper" gasket..........

Richard

On or around Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:40:41 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd enlightened us thusly:

I favour cornflake boxes for making gaskets. bit of grease or oil on 'em if fitting to a water joint helps.

Thinly smeared Hylomar Blue on mating faces and left until I'd finished my coffee - per instructions from man-at-Hylomar - and then fitted 'paper' gasket and diff.

Richard

Did a head gasket that way once, on the side of a narrow track surrounded by mines (the explosive type, not the little guy with a helmet type). Worked a treat for the 100 miles until we got a proper one to fit. Was in 35c heat too.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)