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Yep. "Elephant Snot" turned out to be a very bad idea over time. Much like
foam speaker surrounds of recent memory.

I use an acid-free neutral-formula flexible hot-melt for the purpose. I
source from AdTech.

Some manufacturers use hot melt - but some power components get hot enough
to melt it.

A range of IBM VGA monitors had clusters of tall electrolytics in the PSU
with blobs of RTV joining the tops together.

I'm not entirely convinced it served the intended purpose and it was a PITA
cutting it away when the caps had to be replaced and/or tested.