{"id":11734,"date":"2010-06-25T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:36:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:36:53","slug":"the-secret-to-making-open-silicone-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-secret-to-making-open-silicone-last\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret To Making Open Silicone Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Sanxenxeo-Misc-101.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Sanxenxeo-Misc-101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sanxenxeo-Misc-101.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You are looking at a three year old tube of silicone which is still soft and uncured. The secret? A seal of cling wrap (also known as Saran Wrap). Simply tear off a small piece, place it over the threaded tube end, and screw the cap back down. The seal this makes prevents moisture from getting to, and hardening, the silicone.<\/p>\n<p>Permatex &#8220;RTV&#8221; gasket silicone is a must for the engine spares. It is often used in place of paper gaskets, and works well at high temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are looking at a three year old tube of silicone which is still soft and uncured. The secret? A <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/the-secret-to-making-open-silicone-last\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}