DIY Gasket Manufacturing

Not wanting to spend crazy money on a gasket for a project of mine, i got a little creative and manufactured one myself.
Stator housing Gasket required


Took it to work and photo copied it





Then to cut it out......



Then transfer the template to the gasket paper.



Next will be to take it and test fit to the bike. Pretty basic task, about 30 mins of work and saved a 2 week wait and about $30

What I do to copy gaskets is cover surface of cover with engine oil, then place cover on gasket paper, leaving an oily outline which I cut out.

Awesome tip. Thanks for that. Will have to store that away in the memory banks for when I get stuck.

Both great ideas
Have stuffed around with a biro and crude estimating before , works but these ideas are much better .

pffft, gasket paper??

i use plain ol cardboard...

pffft, gasket paper??

i use plain ol cardboard...

or the pre-greased inside of a used KFC box, whatever is handy at the time

nice one mate

another way of knocking this job over, is to use engineers 'blue', paint the gasket surface on the cover, and just place it onto the gasket paper with some pressure......bingo, instant template. It really helps to have a 6mm hole punch to do the boltholes.....

Those methods work well, engineers "bearing blue" is what Gos is referring too.

Another way is too use a ball peen hammer and gently tap around the outline of the surface through the gasket paper, depends on application of course, then use the marks as a cutting guide.

good idea im sure my well love me doing that lol. thanks for the idea hehehe