Dave wrote on 03/31/16 at 06:30:43:You will like the Suzuki Bond - it is much nicer than the RTV products you get in stores. A tube lasts a very long time and it stays fresh in the tube - the stuff you buy in the stores sets up in the tube no matter how careful you are about getting the cap on tight. The Suzuki bond will stay fresh for years.....the other stuff lasts a few months.
Not that it matters once you've found suzukibond or yamabond, but when working in an auto shop I found that what worked far better when dealing with RTV was to leave a 'sprig' sticking out the end of the tube and discard the cap
the 'sprig' of RTV would harden, sealing the tube far better than a cap ever would, and when you wanted to use it next time, you just pulled the 'sprig' out
it'd still harden the whole tube over time,. but not near as fast as using the cap