LifeSeal is my go to sealant. Your story is a good testament as to why LifeSeal is my go to sealant for many things. :)
I'm assuming you've removed the fasteners and are just dealing with the sealant. Get two dowels or sticks. Get a length of dental floss and wrap it around the two dowels to make a hand saw. Saw the floss back and forth under the winch to cut the LifeSeal. If that doesn't want to work, try it with some small diameter picture hanging wire. Clean up the residual with 3M General Purpose Adhesive Remover. Now, second, I'll bet you, like many of us, overapplied the sealant. We all do it. I have been guilty of the practice many times. If you are bedding a winch on a solid deck, you only need to seal the fastener penetrations, not the entire base. OK, if you want, you can run a tiny bead of sealant around the perimeter of the winch base to keep water from running under the winch. However, it probably isn't necessary. If you beveled the penetrations, you only need a small amount of sealant around each fastener. LifeSeal, LifeCalk and butyl rubber would be my choices for bedding a winch. Butyl is best where there is the potential for movement. In this case, a winch shouldn't move. -- Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 3:49 PM Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > Listers: > > > > I know at least some of you use Life Seal, and I’m looking > for some insight. This past spring I used Life Seal to bed an aluminum > winch base to my nonskid gelcoat cabin top. I now need to remove it to > access a couple bolts (grrrr), and the Life Seal does not want to let go. > Any tricks of the trade? > > >
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