Mixing Sealant types?

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I made the mistake of trying that 'never dries out' Finishline sealant in my tubeless tyres and found out its terrible. Twice now its lost pressure but sealed so I thought I was alright, only later on the soft tyre has hit a bump on the road and lost the rim seal and deflated to un rideable. FFS they've not been big bumps, Im only a 62kg rider and the first time was a front. Im going try initially going back to Stans sealant. Is it a case of just putting it in and letting it mix with the Finish line stuff or do I need to take of the tyre and completely clean the Finishline stuff out ?

If that doesn't work though I'm going back to tubes on the road bike. I think I prefer the sudden failure of tubes and replace rather than the gradual energy sapping failure of tubeless which is harder to notice until the tyre is completely flat :-/
 

PpPete

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Stan's (or rather Schwalbe which I understand is just rebranded Stan's) has yet to impress me. I've changed to Caffelatex which various folks have suggested is better at sealing, lasts longer, is not degraded if you use CO2 to re-inflate. I did remove and clean tyre prior to changing, but that was because the old stuff had mostly turned very watery after a few months.
 

Pale Rider

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Due to some non-sealing behaviour in my rear tubeless tyre I now have a shandy of three sealants.

The stuff the bike shop put in, an aerosol, and green Slime which I had in stock.

The tyre is holding pressure about as well as when it was tubed, so it appears mixing the sealants hasn't done any harm.
 
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