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How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

Yahoo Message Number: 34745
Who uses what for the rubber gaskets around the slide outs? I've read "baby powder" or lubricant made especially for the rubber. We've always used the lubricant on other diesel.

Does CC recommend a specific product?

Dee

2007 Allure
coach # 31529

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34746
I've used silicone and have switched to baby powder, it seems to last longer.

Ray G

03 Magna 6267

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34753

CC magazine says baby powder and nothing that contains petroleum distillates.

Bob Handren

'05 Country Coach Inspire 51178
'00 JGCL

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34760
we use 303

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CC magazine says baby powder and nothing that contains petroleum

distillates.

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Bob Handren

'05 Country Coach Inspire 51178
'00 JGCL

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34769
Some "experts" say baby powder that contains talc is carcinogenic.
Other "experts" say not so.

Regardless, corn starch is the same thing as baby powder without the talc and perfume, and much cheaper.

Never use WD40 because it will cause the slideout seals to swell.

Jim Gregory
10613

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CC magazine says baby powder and nothing that contains petroleum

distillates.

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34773
WHAT ABOUT A SILICONE SPRAY?? WOULD THAT BE BAD.
VIC

03 MAGNA 6253

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34775
When I wrote my maintenance article for Destinations, I wrote that the good options are baby powder ( talc.. just don't breathe it in... not good,) or 303 or silicone. There was a big discussion on the board about 303... but I have found it very useful and a good sunscreen for tires when the coach is not being driven. 303 is very popular. It is even recommended for use on the roof. ( there also was a big discussion about how to apply it...) Everything I wrote was checked out by technical experts at CC and was approved or it would not have gone in Destinations.

Take your pick!

Rosemary

2000 Magna #5798

Quote from: dee ross

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34784

Read the side of the can, if it says "petroleum distillates" under contents it can accelerate deterioriation. Same goes for any tire preparations. Unfortunately, many RV products are designed to primarily separate us from our money. Not all, but too many IMHO with 32 years of RVing experience.
I've put nothing on our seals and will not unless the noisy squeaking bothers the wife abd then it will be talc powder.
The recommendation to use talc has been made at least twice in the CC publication Destinations. The commercial magazines support their advertisers, the ones who really for the publication, so I trust CC first.
If you don't receive Destinations - there is usualy some good info among the relatively mild propaganda - it's their mag after all - just ask and they wull send it free to anyone who askes, CC owner or not.

Bob Handren

'05 Country Coach Inspire 51178
'00 JGCL

Re: How to Maintain Slide Out gaskets (or rubber around slide outs)

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Yahoo Message Number: 34785
If I cannot find pure talc, I use regular baby powder (without corn starch). Any generic brand does just fine. I put it in an old sock or some kind of a cloth bag and dust the seals. Talc is still used to preserve rubber life rafts that are stowed on aircraft.

Jim Hughes

2000 Allure #30511

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