Gaskets
Gasket Material
Gasket material as sheet stock has gotten hard to find in this day of silicon-based sealants, particularly finding sheets that are large enough to make one-piece gaskets for things like differential housings. Over the years I picked up a stock of sheet stuff at flee markets but just as with NOS gasket sets the cork gasket material does tend to dry out and change size.
What I have been using is high grade printing stock paper from local print shop. Have used tag stock as used in manila folders this is what I use to print small gaskets from computer. For the larger stuff 24x36 using high fiber or rag content print paper like they print wedding invitations on. Walked into a printing shop with a micrometer and asked to see their sample book, then proceeded to check the thickness of the various weights of paper. In the end the guy sold me like 20 sheets each of a couple of different thicknesses real cheep around ten bucks.
I then cut out the gaskets and spray them with Permatex Spray Gasket (item 80065) which is meant to seal cut gaskets, and to make them sticky so that they stay in place while being assembled.
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