"I learned the hard way. If it comes out of the tube with difficulty,
toss it."

right on, it's just not worth the hassle of uncured silicone

BTDT what a mistake to save $4

cheers
Bob


wrote:
On 4 Mar 2006 07:57:01 -0800, "
wrote:

try heating it with a hair dryer, that might get it to cure.

if its cold in thaqt area curing will be real slow

It sounds to me the stuff was old. It never will cure if it was.
However, I applied some to my barn a little over a year ago. I was
just plugging some nail holes in sone used tin. It plugged the holes
but remained soft. I planned to remove it and replace it, but this
was in late fall of 2004, and it was getting cold so I just left it.
Spring came and I was busy with other things. Late last summer I went
to replace it and found it was semi hard. Apparently the hot sun
baked it. It's not quite normal, but the holes are plugged and its in
a spot where it dont really matter too much. So, it will stay.
But it took a good year to semi-harden. Maybe after another summer it
will completely harden????
This is fine on my barn, but in your bathroom, you dont want that.

I do wonder if you removed as much as possible with whatever scraper
you can find. Then try to apply some new silicone. Will the new
stuff cause the bad stuff to harden? I dotn know, just a guess....
I had planned to try that on my barn but like I said, it was semi
hard, so I just left it.

I read what others said. I doubt the heat will work. Kerosene might
work, but I would not try to apply new silicone to anything saturated
with kerosene.

I learned the hard way. If it comes out of the tube with difficulty,
toss it.