I've found rubbery sheets in a hardware plumbing section that were about 4"
square and in 2 thicknesses of about 1/8" and 3/16". I dunno what the
material is, it's orange, and apparently meant to be cut to size.
It does cut easily with scissors or utility knife blade. The individual
sheets may have been about 90 cents or not a lot more.

Something I tried when I had to cut open an aged tube of RTV silicone gasket
maker/sealer, was to put some of it between 2 sheets of plastic, just to see
if it would be usable after curing.
I took the sides of 2 liter plastic bottles, and pulled the plastic over an
edge to remove the curl.

I put a big gob of RTV in the middle of one piece, and laid the other piece
on top, and squished it flat to about 1/8", strating at the center of the
gob and pressing outward both ways.
Starting with the big gob will prevent voids as the gob is flattened.
A day or 2 later I was able to peel away a plastic sheet, and release the
RTV from the second sheet easily.
I haven't tried this with other materials, but the pop bottle plastic sheet
results were very good.

I didn't have a purpose for the flat RTV, I just tried this to experiment,
since I had cut the tube open.
The resulting sheet of RTV could've been cut into parts such as high temp
insulators or small gaskets.

WB
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GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote in message
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I'm being cheap (frugal), so bear with me. It's the gasket for the
pump on a 1 gal. garden sprayer, as sold at Wal Mart. I recall the
complete rebuild kit is about $5 but I just need the one large gasket.


What other rubbery materials are easily obtainable to cut or form a
gasket? A sheet that I could cut with a pair of scissors or a razor
would work fine. Or a strip that I could form into a circle and super
glue into a ring would also work. What am I looking for guys?


RWL



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