[TR] Fo8 Sealants Question and List Responses

[Tom Walling]

I have always seen Dum-Dum used as a body joint filler where there are panels that abut each other. I doubt it would have any positive effect on the Figure-of-Eight seals in the engine.

> On 02/08/2021 8:22 PM Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:59 AM John Macartney
> <John.Macartney at ukpips.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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!
> 
> Huh.  I worked for a VW dealer in Atlanta, and we used plenty of
> Dumdum.  I always figured it was a slang term, as I never saw the box
> it came in.
> 
> What I call Dumdum was sheets of wax paper with eight or so rods of
> soft, semi-sticky sealant like modeling clay side by side.     Looked
> like a box of skinny black pencils.
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