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  • Talcum powder, baby powder or corn starch for slide seal maintenance?

    Grand Design techs recommend dusting slide seals with talcum powder. True talcum powder is getting hard to find (carcinogenic apparently) and I have heard some say baby powder works, however most baby powder these days is mostly corn starch. What is the consensus? Is plain corn starch OK or do I need to find real talcum powder?
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    Rob, Chris and fur baby Maya
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    KamFlyer -- other than keeping the seals free from debris, dirt, etc., the only other thing I keep an eye on is to ensure they flip completely each time the slides go in (or out).
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    • #3
      Like Howard, I do nothing for the seals other than keep clean. I don't dust or lube them. The last trailer I kept for 15 years and they never wore out using my method of...doing nothing.
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      • #4
        At a Rally tech seminar several years ago, the LCI rep advised that slide seal material contains a waxy additive for lubrication. Sprays or powders can leach this lubricant out of the seal. (To be fair . . . at a subsequent Rally session a Grand Design rep advised using baby powder.) I have gone with the “do nothing” advice from LCI and six years later, seals are still flexible and still feel “waxy”.

        Like just about any other aspect of an RV . . . there are multiple different opinions .

        Rob
        Cate & Rob
        (with Border Collies Molly & Angel + Kitties Hazel & Elsie)
        2015 Reflection 303RLS
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        • #5
          It was at the 2020 Quartzsite rally that the techs and GD rep (don't recall his name) were saying, IIRC, talcum powder (although it may have been baby powder) in an old sock and to just dust the seals. Most baby powder these days is mostly corn starch so was wondering if straight CS would be OK.
          -Rob-
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          Rob, Chris and fur baby Maya
          2019 Solitude 374TH, Victron Multiplus II 3000 2x120, 600AH of Battle Born LiFePO4, 1800W Solar, Blue Sky CC's, Starlink
          2023 GMC Denali Duramax 4x4 DRW LB CC, Curt Q25
          Follow us at https://rctravels.rmcd.ca/

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          • #6
            Anyone use 3 in 1 rubber seal conditioner? https://www.walmart.com/ip/3-IN-ONE-...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
            Bill Nelson

            2019 Chevy Silverado with 6.2 and 10 speed trans

            2020 Grand Design Imagine XLS 22RBE

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