[Public-List] Custom Gaskets

[George Dinwiddie]

Back in the early 70s when a friend of mine ran a bike shop, butyl tubes (which are cream colored) were relative rare and more expensive. They were great for making slingshots, though, as they are considerably stretchier than others. 

George

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On Dec 1, 2011, at 16:11, Kris Coward <kris at melon.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:02:36PM -0500, John Riley wrote:
>> George Dinwiddie wrote:
>>> You can also get industrial gasket material by looking under "gaskets"
>>> in the yellow pages. If you can use scraps, you can probably get it
>>> pretty cheap.  We've got a strip of 1/8" thick neoprene behind the
>>> coamings.
>>> 
>>> - George
>>> 
>> 
>> Also, a visit to the local tire shop will likely yield some old truck
>> tire inner tubes...when I tried this, they gave them to me free of
>> charge, but I had to dig through the pile for what I wanted.  They said
>> I could take two, and you get a TON of 'gaskets' out of two 18 wheeler
>> inner tubes.
> 
> I've also had good luck with bicycle inner tubes as gasket material (and
> any bike shop will have plenty in the garbage that you can take for
> free). I've also noticed in the past that the bike inner tubes (and I'm
> guessing also the truck tubes) are made of butyl rubber, so given
> butyl's desirability for other sealing jobs, inner tubes should work
> quite well enough.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kris
> 
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