[TR] Fo8 Sealants Question and List Responses

[DAVID MASSEY]

I do recall some manuals and service bulletins called for a sealant called DumDum - and of course, few people if any outside the U.K. have ever heard of DumDum. Even this list has speculated on it!
 Au contraire, mon ami.  Dum Dum is readily available state-side at many body shop supply depots.  I have a box of it in my garage which I used to seal up the aluminium finish piece on top of the TR6 windscreen frame.
But you are right about many products being local specialties where name brands are not available everywhere but equivalents certainly are.  Dum dum included, I'm sure.  
 
Dave 

 
 
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From: John Macartney <John.Macartney at Ukpips.org.uk>
To: Dan Cronin <adcronin at mi.rr.com>
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Sent: Mon, Feb 8, 2021 10:43 am
Subject: Re: [TR] Fo8 Sealants Question and List Responses

 Interesting that the factory workshop manuals do not specify a particular product or brand….

Basic Reasons:

1. Unless absolutely essential, the company policy was not to recommend any one product over another except for things such as oils and fuel octane ratings which latter are calculated still in two different ways.
2. Some products are known in only a few markets and not all of them. Company was supplying product to over 100 different markets.
3. The cars were only designed to last for a maximum period of 10 years, so why bother as mostly the cars would be maintained by the dealers for all but the simplest tasks.

Yes, I remember each car handbook described how to set valve clearances and ignition timing whereas today, the handbook in my wife’s new car points out the dangers of drinking battery acid.

I do recall some manuals and service bulletins called for a sealant called DumDum - and of course, few people if any outside the U.K. have ever heard of DumDum. Even this list has speculated on it!

Jonmac
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