Slide Maintence question

yankeeslover wrote:
I have read all over this board that you should use baby powder on slide seals

Never read this on here so I searched and found a bunch of your posts. This included:

If you are talking about the seals they are accessed from the inside with the slide partly retracted and talcum powder works great. Baby powder is just talcum powder with a scent added. If you are talking about the wipers on the outside then silicone or 303 works well. Many people confuse the seals which seal out air and water with the wipers which clean the slide when it retracts.

So what seals are you talking about?

I still don't see a use for baby powder so maybe someone will educate me. My manuals don't say to use it.