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Gaskets, Cutting your own
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Posted by Vince on February 10, 2002 at 20:07:10 from (152.163.195.182):
When I learned the "Navy Method" of cutting gaskets I thought it was the coolist thing but I learned it from a one eyed guy, so even though I have had a 0% failure rate with this method, in the last ten years,I wonder how it is received verses buying pre cut or replacement technology like Yamaha's Yama bond (great stuff for that hard job where there was no gasket before. For those of you scratching your head about the "Navy Method" you buy a sheet of gasket material, in the type and thickness you want, (although I have used the tag board that came in the back of a new shirt for a weekend emergancy repair and it hasn't leaked in five years)Place it on the casting it has to seal and hold it in place with a drill or bolt driven through the gasket into one (then 2 or 3) of the bolt holes in the casting. Then take a small ballpeen hammer and gently tap the gasket at an angle to the edge of the casting until the gasket is cut by the sharp edge of the casting and the ball. Do this for the entire outer edge of the casting and then repeat for the inner edge. I like to use drills or a punch to clean up the bolt holes. I normaly coat one side with the good old black and sticky avation gasket sealer or Yamabond and leave the other side dry.
What do you think? I don't even want to think about finding gaskets for some of the real old stuff.
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