[Public-List] Custom Gaskets

George Dinwiddie gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
Wed Nov 30 19:19:22 PST 2011


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

On 11/30/11 12:17 PM, Gordon Laco wrote:
> I think the 5200 makes a more durable gasket-like and tear proof membrane
> than less adhesive-like compounds.
>
> Gord #426 SURPRISE
>
>
> On 30/11/11 12:03 PM, "John Riley"<jriley at dsbscience.com>  wrote:
>
>> Jim Davis wrote:
>>> Lifted from the American Schooner Association website.  I have not tried
>>> this, although I know the man who suggested it and his boat.
>>>
>>> "For those that have various deck fittings that are removed from time to time
>>> to facilitate painting or varnishing, here is a good trick from Joe and Jamie
>>> Lowell at Even Keel Marine to make a permanent reusable gasket. Tape the area
>>> off and apply three coats of high temperature mold release wax to the deck
>>> and the bottom of the fitting. Spread 5200 on the bottom of the fitting and
>>> screw it in place (but not totally tight). When the 5200 cures, pull the
>>> fitting off and take the 5200 gasket up and trim it. You now have a custom
>>> gasket that can be reused for decades. Clean off the wax, and screw it back
>>> down.
>>> We used this method to bed the iron ballast on Blackbird (see recent
>>> restoration photos), except we did not take it apart afterwards. Much better
>>> than any other elastomer or tar, and the 5200 will last a very long time
>>> underwater and the ballast can still be removed if that is ever needed."
>>>
>>> http://www.amschooner.org/node/51
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim Davis
>>> Privateer Isa Lei
>>>
>>> T
>> I don't understand...if you want it to be removable, why bother spending
>> the money on an ADHESIVE like 5200, and going to the trouble to defeat
>> the adhesive properties with extra steps?
>>
>> I must be missing something; this seems like another example of a
>> complicated solution to a rather simple problem, and one that's been
>> solved 1000 ways already.
>>
>> Curmudgeonly Yours,

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