Needed a chainsaw carb gasket now on Sunday afternoon.

[aametalmaster]

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

[doubleboost]

(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
John

[stevec]

5 minute job? I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.

[dallen]

I'm thinking a couple of hours start to finish, but the Cherrio's box he made it from is probably better material then the one he could of purchased for 30 cents.

[EdK]

Nice tip on making a punch on the quick.

Ed

[DaveH]

(09-23-2012, 02:57 PM)dallen Wrote: I'm thinking a couple of hours start to finish,

And me, and that is just the thinking time

DaveH

[aametalmaster]

(09-23-2012, 02:53 PM)stevec Wrote: 5 minute job? I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.

I have about 1,000 pcs of small scrap like that just for small hurry up jobs. Boxes and boxes of them...Bob

[NevadaBlue]

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.

[Highpower]

(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?

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.

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

[ETC57]

(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?

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.

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

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

Jerry.