Sealants and petrol

What kind of sealant can be used where petrol is involved?

I guess silicone sealant isn't up to the job...

 

Durko, or however it's spelt.

 

Dunno. What are you trying to seal?

Dunno. Might be - or do you have empirical evidence that we ought to
know about?

 

I just want to put a blob of it round the petrol tap on the SZR, since I
took it off and put it back on, it's got a very slight leak.. almost
none.

well I put some on (it was clear bathroom silicone sealant) and it sort
of went a gooey brown, so I've assumed it's no good for the job.

Off to Halfords now anyway to see what's on the shelves.

 

You guess wrong.
When cured, Silicon Sealant is fuel proof.

 

Got some proper gasket stuff now, so I'll have the tap off tomorrow
after emptying the tank, remake the gasket, and it'll be spiffy.

What I now need to figure out is how whenever I go somewhere like
Halfords, or a toolshop, I always buy more things than I need.

 

Because you are the victim of a capitalist society?

D

 

You post wrong(ly).

In uk.r.m., please put your reponses below the text to which you are
replying. Have a google for the FAQ.

 

Lol.

Ginge could sell IT to the Indians.

 

semi-serious moment..[1]

I ain't no shteeeening sales-weasel, nor will I ever be, unless I'm
backed into a corner with no other means of escape.

....No, I'm the guy that trained the Indians to do the crap jobs nobody
else wanted to do. And they love it, because they earn more than most
people do out there... and it hasn't affected anyone's job here either.

Sure, I'm part of a big capitalist nightmare, but personally I have my
own set of lines which I will not cross.


[1] Unusual for a Sunday afternoon, I know, but I'm tired and a bit
grouchy after being called out at 3AM last night and not actually
falling back to sleep until maybe 5... then waking up at 8, 9, 10, etc..

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Silicone, as you may have found, tends to disintegrate on contact with
petrol. What are you sealing - a gasket, flange, edge contact, pipe
fitting?

Whatever; you'll find better sealants on the shelf of your local motor
factors. Hylomar is pretty good for gasket sealing on carbs; if you go
down to a plumbing trade counter and ask for 'stuff for sealing fuel
pipes' they'll give you a little-tub-wiv=a-brush-in which is rated for
diesel and kerosene but also works quite well with petrol (this would be
for threaded fittings).

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Is it bollocks.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Ok sorry.

 

Oh but it is, when cured.

 

Did you actually read what I wrote?

Look here:
http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
Section 10.3 particularly applies.

 

Oh, I've just read the FAQ and I am very sorry.
I just can't apologise enough. Again, I am very, very sorry.

 

LOL, a troll is for life, not just Christmas.

Have fun, Pip.

 

Wotcha.

Bloody silicone !

Guess who had to extract a "Silcone Slug" from out of his fuel line
yesterday ?
Well that'll be the cause of my mystery fuel starvation problem then.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

You carry on believing that.

Idgaf.

Btw, if you're going to leap in with your ill-informed nonsense, please
have the good grace to post at the bottom.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

That must be impossible according to the amazing Crimly Cuurmudgeon as
silicon disintegrates on contact with petrol!