Have a 5 year old VC Resolute Acclaim, and I want to replace some gaskets if it ever warms up enough here in NY to let stove go out. I've done some of this before and the vertical gaskets never want to stay in place. The Imperial gasket cement is absolute junk, and the 6 oz tubes of Rutland always want to clog up, causing me to cut the tip larger than I really want. Are there any cements, which when properly applied, actually stick the gasket to a vertical surface long enough to bolt the parts back together?
Best Gasket Cement?
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I have had better luck with RTV Silicone, clear or black, than with the water soluble gasket cement.
YMMV.
YMMV.
mstoelton
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Would I be able to use this silicone on a complete stove rebuild? I am about to rebuild one of my encores using the Rutland cement, and I am worried that when I start moving the stove onto the hearth from the basement the cement will crack. Silicone makes more sense.
I hope this is somewhat related to this thread. If not,
I did not mean th high jack it.
To be honest, I have never tried a complete rebuild with RTV..
I have rebuilt many VC Stoves (50+) with water soluble furnace cement & the clean up is easy.
I think when RTV gets squeezed out of the assembled unit, the clean up is gonna be troublesome,
even if you get it before it starts to set up.
Look at the MSDS for silicone sealants. The stuff vaporizes at 800 degrees. Not what you want to happen in the joints of your stove.
A guy here didn't believe me five years ago and used it around the liner in his block off plate. One night the stove was burning and "poof" the stuff was gone and stunk up the joint.
A guy here didn't believe me five years ago and used it around the liner in his block off plate. One night the stove was burning and "poof" the stuff was gone and stunk up the joint.
Several years back I re-glued in some small sections of door gasket that had come detached using blue permatex rtv. Last year I replaced the gasket. The areas of factory glue were easy to clean out of the gasket channel, but the rtv had baked into a very solid and very hard to remove cement. For the new gasket I used Meeco's gasket cement which is holding up fine.
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