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quesion about poison and flollow-up on gluing rubber
How poisonous is RTV silicone sealant (room temperature
vulcanization?)? When I use this "glue", I lick my fingers to get them wet to smooth the glue out. Otherwise it looks like a mountain range. I use a different finger each time, but today I needed more fingers than usual. And after I used the same finger twice, I could taste the RTV in my mouth for 10 minutes or more until I could go rinse my mouth out. Is that bad for me? I don't think sticking my finger in a cup of water would work because spit etc. seems to work a lot better than plain water. But I wonder if I'm worrying for nothing, or if this really is bad for me. -------- Unless a chemist knows why there is no more black RTV anymore, to the A.H.R people: I couldn't find Duco or Duro rubber for sale, in a store or on the net, and I looked on the net for something else black but so far hadn't found anything. Then I "inherited" three 2 1/2-oz. tubes of clear RTV silicone sealant so I used that. I can't find any black RTV anymore and I used to use it a lot. I can't find GE silicone cement in the 2 to 4 oz. tubes anymore and that used to come in white, clear, black, and maybe something else. Now they sell a variety of GOOP, for different uses, but all are "clear". I found 2 or 3 black things that fit caulking guns, like roofing caulk, but none were listed both as adhesive and as flexible, like RTV is. What's going on? Is something wrong with black? |