Oddly enough, way before I got "educated" putting these things together, I used the silicone rubber method mainly because when I was a tech in the Coast Guard, everything that had an opportunity to leak water got sealed with silicon rubber. We used to keep cartons of this stuff around. It works on wing saddles, although, I must agree that it never made a difference with anything I flew, or to any degree that I was ever able to notice.

CGr.