are graphite impregnated door gaskets better then plain fiberglass

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Burning Hunk
Aug 11, 2017
159
NY, USA
I used white fiberglass door gaskets and found in 5 months of use they got very brittle. I am hoping that the graphite ones will be better. I saw bronze door gaskets but it did not say what made them bronze. I saw black ones figured they had graphite but the package did not say