On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:22:20 -0600, "Sheltech"
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Tim Williams wrote in message ...
"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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Is there a reason you need it to be flexible?
I can't think of much off-hand that will work.
Pure gold perhaps, some stainless steel based spring gaskets with
graphite, ...

Copper? Depending on the atmosphere anyway I guess...

Tim

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Okeley Dokely, to answer a few replies at once,
This is for an annealing box with a flat lid that will screw on . I'm annealing copper sheets in an electric kiln.
Perfect seal isn't actually required because the customer isn't fussy about getting pristine copper
parts; in fact , torch-annealed was adequate. I mostly want to 'automate' the annealing.

Flexibility of the gasket material isn't actually necessary, I just sort of assumed that rigid materials wouldn't
be among the candidates. Copper might work if I used socket caps and cranked them, instead of common machine screws.
For that matter, if my box had a milled-flat flanged rim instead of the non-flat one it has and a thicker, flatter lid, I might
get by without a gasket at all, given the relaxed standards of the customer.

ps "pure gold" ..... if that was a bad idea it wouldn't be funny. good one.

thx
DS

If that's all the sealing you need then go to the fireplace store and
buy some door gasket rope gasket for wood burning stoves. It is woven
glass I think. Anyway it should work fine.
ERS