Any preference on stove and gasket cement?

[PJ Nevada]

I'm going to be assembling a Firelight 12 tomorrow, not a full rebuild. It was disassembled just enough to replace the inner burn plate. I need to cement the foot pedal linkage cover to the inside of the burn chamber. It was assembled with out any gasket material. Cast iron cover bolted to cast iron inner stove wall and sealed with cement. There were two brands of cement at the local store - Rutland and Mecca's Red Devil. The Rutland was about $5 a tube and contains Crystalline Silica. The Mecca's was about $15 for the same size tube and contains Sodium Silicate.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.

 

[PJ Nevada]

After a little research, it looked like the Rutland might have been a slightly better fit for this purpose. Slightly better. However, it seems I had a bad tube of cement. After cutting the end off of a new tube I could barely squeeze and product out of it. What came out was like past, the middle of the tube seemed squishy but there was definitely something wrong with the tube.

I ended up using the Mecca'a cement. It worked just fine, and the cure time was shorter. We fired up the stove tonight, it was so nice to have it back. The propane furnace warms the house nicely but it's not the same as having a fire in the stove. Plus when the furnace is running I can hear dollar bills burning up with the propane.