[Public-List] Custom Gaskets

[George Dinwiddie]

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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