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Topic: Caulking type and brand?

Posted By: Subzilla
Subject: Caulking type and brand?
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2018 at 8:43am

Planning to remove/redo the front exterior mini flood light (doing some mods...). Is there a consensus on the type of caulking and brand to use?

I do have a roll of butyl tape and I'm debating on if I want to use that or flush mount the light and recaulk it. Or both? Also what color? I have the 2017 blue and light grayish?? I'm guessing some type of gray.

Thanks!

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Mark
Concord, NC
2017 RP 179 "Podzilla"
2011 Silverado 1500 4X4

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Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 2:07pm

It's not likely that you're going to find a good bedding compound caulk in colors other than white or black. But if you do it right, white should be not be very noticeable. I've used 3M 5200 and Locktite Marine Adhesive for mounting some stuff on our Pod and they work very well. I used to use the 3M 5200 on sail boats and it was very effective in the harshest conditions for a very long time. You will need to clean around the fixture to get rid of the excess caulk so you have a crisp edge of caulk around it's base of what you mounted. That way it hardly shows at all; just a thin white line.

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