used in the past without good results

by Roy

I've seen butyl used in the past without good results.

Trying to clean it is also a major nuisance.

Depending on the substrate that you're bedding to, I use different products for glass and wooden boats, load or no load also has a major factor.

fell in love with it

by Leo

I have a good friend that owns a sailboat repair shop.

Last year when we put new nonskid on the deck we had to remove all decking hardware.

He gave me the butyl to use and I fell in love with it.

It makes installation so easy, virtually no clean up, and seals like nothing else.

Butyl Tape

by Chipper

My father in law was an autobody mechanic for most of his later working years and he swears by it.

A type of butly tape is available in rolls and is used for windshield and commercial window installation.

I have also used the "grey stuff" on the old Scamper trailer I am also working on and it gets a cured surface on it but remains spongy.

It is also a little more costly.

I always have a tube and a chunk of the roll stuff in my workshop and work truck.

A little piece of the roll on a screw driver allows me to retrieve dropped screws from tight spots too.

Chipper

Butyl

by STEPHEN

it does not keep well, unless you casn keep the air from getting to it.

It does fail in long term strorage.

I have never used it in a boat application.