[pct-l] Tarptent seam sealing

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Ryan,

A few years ago I asked my wife to get me some “paint thinner” and what she
brought home was called new, improved, non-flammable paint thinner, and it
is a milk-white color.  It is wretched stuff.  I don’t paint, but I use
paint thinner – aka “solvent” or “petroleum distillate” – for degreasing.  This
white stuff wasn’t good for dissolving anything that I’ve found, even
though it claims to contain some, unspecified amount of petroleum
distillate.

My experience with thinning GE Silicon Sealer has been with a 100%
petroleum distillate product.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Clark
<kamikazehummingbirds at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok so round two. Stirred, kneaded and mixed  like crazy for nearly 20 min.
> It never dissolved. It turned white and got a littler gooeier but never
> thin enough to spread with foam brush. And def not close to the "olive oil"
>  consistency the tarptent video says and shows. I'm going to go buy some
> mineral sprits and try that instead.
> Any more tips?
> Thank you all
>