Needed a chainsaw carb gasket now on Sunday afternoon.
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So i fired up my lathe and chucked up a chunk of round scrap that i keep for small projects. It needed to have a 1 1/8" hole punched in the gasket. So i turned the chunk to 1 1/8" OD then turned the compound and cut from the center out making a nice sharp edge for the cutter. I left a small bump in the center of the punch to line up with the punch mark that i made with an ice pick down thru the diaphram cover. Just lined up the punch mark and slid everything in my shop press and punched it out. Perfect. 5 minute job....Bob


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Bob Wright
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(09-23-2012, 02:36 PM)aametalmaster Wrote: So i fired up my lathe and chucked up a chunk of round scrap that i keep for small projects. It needed to have a 1 1/8" hole punched in the gasket. So i turned the chunk to 1 1/8" OD then turned the compound and cut from the center out making a nice sharp edge for the cutter. I left a small bump in the center of the punch to line up with the punch mark that i made with an ice pick down thru the diaphram cover. Just lined up the punch mark and slid everything in my shop press and punched it out. Perfect. 5 minute job....Bob

It makes you wonder how people manage with out a lathe
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5 minute job? Chin I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.
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I'm thinking a couple of hours start to finishChin, but the Cherrio's box he made it from is probably better material then the one he could of purchased for 30 cents.Smiley-signs107Smiley-signs107
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Nice tip on making a punch on the quick. 6799

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(09-23-2012, 02:57 PM)dallen Wrote: I'm thinking a couple of hours start to finishChin,
And me, and that is just the thinking time Thumbsup Rotfl
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(09-23-2012, 02:53 PM)stevec Wrote: 5 minute job? Chin I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.
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I have about 1,000 pcs of small scrap like that just for small hurry up jobs. Boxes and boxes of them...Bob
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Nice work!

You make a gasket like that without a lathe by using a gasket hammer. I still have one of the tiny ball-pein gasket hammers, I think the head is about an inch long.

This pic is from the internet, but I have a hammer quite a bit smaller than this one.

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(09-23-2012, 07:34 PM)NevadaBlue Wrote: Nice work!

You make a gasket like that without a lathe by using a gasket hammer.

Still kickin it old school, eh Ken? Big Grin

I've done that plenty of times for pump housings, water necks, some manifolds, etc. I don't know that I would want to do it on a carburetor body though. Chin

I'm surprised that Bob didn't have 100 of those gaskets sitting on a shelf somewhere though. Blink
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(09-23-2012, 08:50 PM)Highpower Wrote:
(09-23-2012, 07:34 PM)NevadaBlue Wrote: Nice work!

You make a gasket like that without a lathe by using a gasket hammer.

Still kickin it old school, eh Ken? Big Grin

I've done that plenty of times for pump housings, water necks, some manifolds, etc. I don't know that I would want to do it on a carburetor body though. Chin

I'm surprised that Bob didn't have 100 of those gaskets sitting on a shelf somewhere though. Blink

Aw Willie ya gotta live on the edge.SweatBig GrinI've made hundreds of carb gaskets with a hammer, motorcycles engine cases as well ya just gotta tap lite!!TongueSmiley-dancenana

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