What makes a good gasket ?

[stubbydrainer]

I want the seal for the top lid 300 Dia. and 3 mm thick would be just nice I reckon :geek:
And I don't know why I didn't just come straight out and ask ya direct like BD :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[stubbydrainer]

Well he's da man to talk to,real helpful.....

yeah right BD, real helpful :handgestures-thumbdown:
$ 182 + gst helpful,for 1200 x 500 mm x 3 mm silicon is as small a piece that they sell with no freebies or samples :crying-yellow:
there's too much left over in that for me just for 1 gasket
I'm going 3mm hobby cork less than $ 20

[Cane Toad]

Hey Stubs,the bloke I spoke to was David,and as I said,was real helpful,just been out the shed and I found 1 of the whole pieces he sent me,it's 2mm thick and semi transparent and 290x290mm in size.if this is of any use to you PM me your address and I'll pop it in the post on Monday or Tuesday for ya.
Cheers
BD

[stubbydrainer]

thanks BD :handgestures-thumbupleft:
I reckon that's mighty generous of you to do that and is greatly appreciated :clap: :clap:
The bloke I spoke to was Ross and I found him to be not helpful at all :handgestures-thumbdown:
I went to the welding shop I regularly frequent this morning, to line up the plasma cutting of the keg and I picked up a bit of stainless plate from around the back of the guillotine to mount the elements into, ( it took an hour :doh: , I like living in a small town :dance: )
so the boiler project is gelling nicely together :dance: :dance: so.... while I'm waiting for stuff to show up , I better get on and do all the little jobs I need to get out of the road, there seems to be a bit of a pile of them accumulating :doh:

Cheers
Stubs

[pintoshine]

if you are going for permanent, cork.
I use food grade EDPM on my column. no contribution to taste at all. It hasn't degraded in years of use.

[R-sole]

I've used edpm or insertion rubber on my boiler, edpm as pint say's is still as good as the day i first used it.

[stubbydrainer]

Is the edpm available as a sheet ?
BD is sending me some silicon sheet ( I hope :? ) I want to make the seal for the top of the boiler where I'm cutting a 235mm hole for cleaning it out and making a cover plate 295mm held in place with bolts/nuts , this cover plate with have a 4" flange welded to it , for mounting the still, sealed with a 4" edpm gasket

cheers
Stubs

[R-sole]

I'll send you some. ;-)

[stubbydrainer]

Thanks 5Star
But it should be sorted with the silicon BD is sending ( I have a good feeling about it )
I am interested in checking it out though, for future reference, Do you have a scrap or off cut/ sample I could check out ?

Cheers
Stubs

[maheel]

http://www.uniseal.com.au/

this is the mob i was thinking of.

website is one page of not much, but i just live down the road and when i dropped in last year the office lady was very help full and gave me some samples of teflon / PTFE discs that were off cuts / waste to play with

she said that they cut from CAD drawings


for idea's

http://www.coffeeparts.com.au/faema/fae ... e-parts-23

have a look at the boiler gasket in teflon, sadly they dont have "sizes"
but these type of gaskets are about 3mm thick and hold in 1.8 bar easy of steam pressure

http://www.coffeeparts.com.au/carimali/ ... re-parts-6
the carimali does not have bolt holes but sits on a machined ring inside the bolts for something different

[stubbydrainer]

Thanks Maheel
It's good to know these places are about :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers
Stubs

[audistiller]

How did you go with this Draino, I may have missed another thread somewhere. Anyway I just wanted to say, without thinking too hard about it, the lids for the T500 boilers have a silicon type seal around the inside of the lid, and the stainless lids are about $40 odd dollars each. Possibly not even close to a solution, but I thought I would mention it.


Regards

[stubbydrainer]

I cut some gaskets for electric elements and boiler lid yesterday Aud, out of some 4mm silicon sheet that BD sent me,
worked out a treat, I reckon these things are going to last a lifetime :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Thanks again BD :handgestures-thumbupleft: ( or what ever ya fuckin name is this week ) :laughing-rolling:

[MacStill]

Thanks again BD :handgestures-thumbupleft: ( or what ever ya fuckin name is this week ) :laughing-rolling:

What would you like it to be? :mrgreen:

[stubbydrainer]

I liked him as cupcake :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[Cane Toad]

So Cupcake it is :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[Cane Toad]

Hey Mac,don't do half the fuckin job,I want my cupcake avatar too :teasing-neener: :laughing-rolling: :teasing-neener:

[MacStill]

Hey Mac,don't do half the fuckin job,I want my cupcake avatar too :teasing-neener: :laughing-rolling: :teasing-neener:

Careful what you wish for :text-lol:

[stubbydrainer]

:laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[cdbrown]

Hey Mac,don't do half the fuckin job,I want my cupcake avatar too :teasing-neener: :laughing-rolling: :teasing-neener:

Thankfully I found the board option to turn off the avatars otherwise could be trouble with work if someone saw it from a distance :shock: