On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:41:22 GMT, "Mikey S." wrote:

I cleaned it off with some mineral spirits, it slowly dissolved the gooey
mess left after I scraped off the silicone II, without ruining the vinyl
frame on the brand new $700 Anderson sliding door I had just installed.
Stronger solvents might have damaged the plastic..that was a major concern
in this case.

Glad your new door came out all right!

Thanks. Mineral spirits. I'll bear that in mind. The silicone stuff
is great when it works, but when it won't harden, it's sort of
disgusting. Come to think of it, standard Western Electric phones
used by phone companies for decades had all the small parts in a metal
case surrounded in some sort of clear silicone-like stuff. It kept
the phones break-proof I vaguely thing it was gooey, but maybe not
hard.