OIL-TIGHT JOINTS
CORK GASKET SUBSTITUTES. Although cork gaskets are extremely effective for making oil-tight joints, they are, at the same time, somewhat frail and reliable to damage. Furthermore, replacements can, as a rule, he obtained only from the manufacturers of the car. Effieient substitutes, however, can be made at home from a piece of cork lino, which is probably available on the premises, or at any rate can easily be bought at a local furnishing shop. Using the
old gasket as a pattern, the lino can be marlted off and eut on a flat surface with an old razor blade or a sharp knife. It is preferable, of course, to use plain lino, as the pattern variety has a somewhat harder surfaee which will not conform so readily with any irregularities which may exist in the two faees of the joint.- *
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 34, 2 October 1931, Page 5
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