# Types silicone help
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [December 27, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112 "2011-12-27T03:29:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Floosh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Floosh)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/1 "2011-12-27T03:29:42Z")
I have never silicone before and I want to know what are the other typed of silicone I can use because no hardware store i live around don’t sell flowable, rtv or black, so what other silicone could I use?
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/2 "2011-12-27T03:51:33Z")
If it cures at room temperature, it’s RTV.
What you want is at the auto parts store. Flowable is a kind of RTV silicone.
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### Author:  [@mx.yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mx.yoyo)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/3 "2011-12-30T22:54:11Z")
What brand should I buy? I’ll be buying at advance auto parts. And does the pack say flowable silicone or does it say something else
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### Author:  [@yoyomaverick](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyomaverick)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/4 "2011-12-30T23:04:50Z")
I use permatex blue rtv silicone. Works better than flowable in my opinion. Get it at an autoparts store, as its used for making gaskets.
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### Author:  [@mx.yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mx.yoyo)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/5 "2011-12-30T23:12:18Z")
Im familiar with most silicone but there wasn’t any in Mexico and I figured I would check before buying. This is gonna be my fist sili and I’ll have to do 2(888x and FHZ)
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### Author:  [@mx.yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mx.yoyo)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/6 "2012-01-02T21:06:06Z")
Did my first sili job with permatex(or whatever the brand is) flowable silicone for glass and it seemed pretty good. The problem is I liked it too much and decided to clean out the sili on y FHZ an redo half of it so now I have no unresponsive yoyo.
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### Author:  [@jrspike](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jrspike)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/7 "2012-01-03T01:40:28Z")
one thing that helps is to use a guitar pick to smooth it out and create a recess.
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### Author:  [@fjh123](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/fjh123)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/8 "2012-01-03T01:56:08Z")
If it comes in a squeeze tube it’s “flowable”
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/9 "2012-01-03T02:28:19Z")
> [@jrspike](#):
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> one thing that helps is to use a guitar pick to smooth it out and create a recess.
If you’re using gasket silicone, then yes, a guitar pick helps, I think better than using a spoon. If you’re using flowable, it’s self-leveling, so don’t “over-fill it”. Regardless of what is used, keep it just below the “lip” of the recess.
> [@fjh123](#):
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> If it comes in a squeeze tube it’s “flowable”
I see red, blue and black in squeeze tubes. I know those aren’t flowable. But, I don’t recall those coming with a nozzle included either.
I like the Permatex that is available at YYE, although I get it at the local auto parts store. The Permatex web site can direct you to local places that most likely carry their products. At my local auto parts stores, they keep the flowable hidden in the back for some reason. I had to ask at two places. One did not have it, the other one did. Both were O’Rielly stores.
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### Author:  [@mx.yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mx.yoyo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/10 "2012-01-03T03:18:02Z")
I just remembered something. Don’t let the silicone get between you semester final paper due tomorrow. It won’t end well
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### Author:  [@nobody](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nobody)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/11 "2012-01-03T04:01:16Z")
I still use a spoon on flowable to get a concave shape and to smoothen it out. Though it is flowable it is not 100% liquids or anything.
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### Author:  [@dingo54](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dingo54)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/12 "2012-01-03T04:18:29Z")
It doesn’t matter what brand you buy really but I buy red rtv silicone and it works great but doesn’t look the best but who cares. I use a guiter pick to flatten it out once you put it in the gap.
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### Author:  [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/13 "2012-01-03T12:59:52Z")
RTV = Room Temperature Vulcanizing = All silicone you would use in a yoyo.
Flowable is generally clear, olthough you can get it in other colors, ex. Monkey Snot.
What most people refer to as RTV is the red, blue, green, black etc. Gasket Making silicone.
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### Author:  [@dingo54](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dingo54)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/14 "2012-01-03T14:48:53Z")
> [@PlasticWhip](#):
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> RTV = Room Temperature Vulcanizing = All silicone you would use in a yoyo.
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> Flowable is generally clear, olthough you can get it in other colors, ex. Monkey Snot.
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> What most people refer to as RTV is the red, blue, green, black etc. Gasket Making silicone.
Yes I found that using flowable silicone was responsive until I broke it in. Also the color of RTV silicone you get does matter. Blue will normally last for maybe 2-4 weeks while red will last 4-6 months. These are the only two kinds of RTV I have used though.
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### Author:  [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/15 "2012-01-03T21:11:38Z")
[quote=“dingo54,post:14,topic:33112”]
A matter of debate, that is.
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/types-silicone-help/33112/16 "2012-01-03T21:24:04Z")
[quote=“PlasticWhip,post:15,topic:33112”]
> [@dingo54](#):
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> A matter of debate, that is.
I think HOW it is put in is probably a bit more critical than WHAT is put n.
I have a CLYW that the previous owner put blue in and I play it quite frequently and it’s been over 3 months now. Granted, I’m not playing it exclusively but it does get hit often.