Tim Wescott writes:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:00:16 -0700, SteveB wrote:

Any tricks to gasket making?
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I'd start by going to a decent auto parts store and getting some 1/32"
thick gasket material.

There is a trick that is rarely needed but sometimes helps.

If your Exacto knife, surgical scalpel or other Very Sharp Blade isn't
cutting the gasket material -- gasket paper, cork, whatever -- cleanly,
there is a device used by dress makers that may work: a fabric cutter,
sort of like an Exacto knife but with a razor-sharp rotating wheel
instead of a static blade. Cool device. (Do remember to use it on a
surface that won't blunt it in one rev.)

99% of the time, scissors, Exacto knife or Bard-Parker scalpel plus a
cheap set of hole (hollow) punches are fine.

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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada