Gasket glue for woodburning stove

Hi All,
I have a small ( steel ) wood burning stove. About a year or less ago I replaced the gasket material around the door. I cleaned the door ( inside ) very well and then glued on the new gasket with the recommended cement ( RTV ).
Now the gasket is falling off and the adhesive is brittle and hard.
Is there a better adhesive or trick to doing this?
Paul
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I do not use any adhesive, just find the size gasket that provides a press fit into the channel for it.
Household RTV is only good for about 500 hours at 450F, then it starts to disentigrate. Some of the red hi temp silicone will last for 500 hours at 550F.
Oh, yes, welcome to BT, see this is your first post. Enjoy.
Edit. reread you post and it may be you have a flat door??? If so, the highest temp material I know is durapot 340. Good for 340C (644F), but is pricey, requires 200 C to cure, likely not available at the big boxes. .
Edited 10/31/2007 5:07 pm ET by junkhound
Yah. It is a flat door. No channel. That's a big part of the problem. To bad. I was hoping for a line on some miracle " sauce ". I guess I'll redo it again like I did before.
Thanks for the welcome mat. I'm usually hanging around at Knots.
Paul
They sell fireplace and woodstove gasket cement, I got a tube at ACE hardware, but any good stove shop should have it.
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That's what I used the first time. Was hoping there was something better available.
Thanks,
Paul
I went to the auto parts place and got some "ultra copper" RTV.
Stuff is supposed to be used on automotive exhaust manifolds.
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
Paul
I got mine from tractor supply, no problems yet - although I may have just melted the gasket to the steel - ;)
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