I'm not about to reseal any tanks, and i'm hoping not for a long long time either so this isn't a thread about me asking for advice how to do it.
It's common knowledge that if you have a leak in your tank, even a relatively small one, that it is best to bite the bullet and strip the whole interior silicon out and replace with new. This is because new silicon dosen't adhere well to old silicon and so where you have the two meet you are likely to develop another leak over a period of time.
This is where a thought occurred to me. Surely with modern materials and science etc etc this really shouldn't need to be the case. I'd have thought in this day and age that there would be some kind of bonding gel, glues, additives, whatever, that would mean that you could put new silicon side by side with old silicon and they'd bond just fine.
Does anybody know of any research or testing being carried out on this subject, maybe a product's already in the pipeline for imminent release. It just seems odd to me that no progress, that i'm aware of anyway, is being made concerning this age old problem.
It's common knowledge that if you have a leak in your tank, even a relatively small one, that it is best to bite the bullet and strip the whole interior silicon out and replace with new. This is because new silicon dosen't adhere well to old silicon and so where you have the two meet you are likely to develop another leak over a period of time.
This is where a thought occurred to me. Surely with modern materials and science etc etc this really shouldn't need to be the case. I'd have thought in this day and age that there would be some kind of bonding gel, glues, additives, whatever, that would mean that you could put new silicon side by side with old silicon and they'd bond just fine.
Does anybody know of any research or testing being carried out on this subject, maybe a product's already in the pipeline for imminent release. It just seems odd to me that no progress, that i'm aware of anyway, is being made concerning this age old problem.