how you doing everybody Randy Richard in the shop gasket cutting five tips in
five minutes so a quick rundown of some of the tools of the trade here so we
have cutting tools scissors work great and a sharp knife
we have arced punches that's arc as in ARCH punches and here's a versatile set
of arch punches this is a gasket cutter that will cut circles and radius's measuring
tools of course and that includes dividers and compass and
hammers, ball peen hammers one great tool and tip is using a gasket cutter for
cutting circles now this one I made this one here but there are many that are
like this has an adjustable pivot pin right here has a scale along here
markings and a utility knife blade or a gasket cutting blade a sharp edge that
is barely sticking out that you can adjust the depth for goes in your pivot
hole and you can cut circles or you could cut radius on a piece of gasket
material excellent excellent tool here's the piece that needs a gasket me and a
gasket I use the circle cutter to cut that circle outside I use scissors,
scissors are great look at the size of those things
and then arch punches for the holes so what you do is you put here's a tip it's
punch one hole first on the approximate location slip a placeholder in there to
locate your your gasket something that fits real nice and close even if it's
not the right size but it fits the hole of your piece and then you can mark this
hole and punch it you can also cut the outside with a sharp knife you can also
lay out your work on your gasket material using a compass for circles and
ARC's or a pair of dividers even to mark
spacing on holes and such and then using a nice metal scale is always handy for
those measurements tape measure works too method for marking out the gasket
not necessarily cutting it out so let's say you cut the hole in this and you
laid it on there take a ball-peen hammer wonderful tool for this get your gasket
situated where you roughly want it and tap the gasket over the hole around tap
your gasket all the way around the edges and around your and around your other
Hall using the ball and you know you'll come up and it'll be perfectly marked
and you can punch out your holes with your arc punches and your scissors to
cut out the pattern punching holes and gaskets always use the end grain of wood
some plastics materials work okay like a cutting board they'll work kinda okay
but the end grain of wood works the best piece of glue-lam beam I've cut off they
will have less tendency to split your gasket and it takes very little effort
to punch that hole and they come out just beautiful a tip about punching
holes if it's close to the edge you'll split your gasket sometimes that not
what you want so if you left had left a larger perimeter around here and you did
all your inside work first and your hole punching and then cut the perimeter away
this is a Blue Point kit and these just there's a little over here that slips on
the harbor tap-tap works perfect in grain of the wood all right you guys
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