You wrote:
>Hi Again.
>I remember reading somewhere once that gaskets were (or are) made from
>a rather absorbant/absorb-ive paper, like really heavy postal wrap.
>Is this anywhere near the truth? ie), can I make replacement gaskets
>from this if I can't get a new replacement one?
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>dmbrock@julian.uwo.ca <David M Brock>
>The University of Western Ontario
>I'm not going to bother with a .sig file for now.
David:
Gasket material is ungodly inexpensive, and available from just about
any auto parts store. It also comes in many different thicknesses, so
matching the right size shouldn't be a problem.
I just bought a roll of gasket material, 12"X 60" for about $2.00 US,
at my local auto parts store.
One other hint: If you have the old gasket, or a reasonable facsimile,
take it to a place where you can scan it into a picture file on the
computer. Take that picture file and use a paint/publishing software
package to fill in any damaged parts of the gasket. This will be your
template in the future. I recommend that you print this out on a laser
printer on regular paper, and you can use this to cut the gasket that
you need.
A friend of mine works at a print shop that can print just about
anything on a laser-type printer, so I took the file to him, along with
a sheet of gasket material. He printed 6 of the same gaskets on the
material that I gave him, and I took it home and cut the holes that I
needed. They worked great!
I am in the process of buying a flat-bed scanner so that I can scan my
own papaer gaskets....alas, one day, maybe I can find a printer that
will print metal gaskets (like the ones used as head gaskets).
Let me know if you need more info on this process!
Guido
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