I don't have a copier in the geerage, but I do have a can of flat black
spray paint - slap the old or new gasket down on whatever you want to copy
it to, and spray a light mist - viola, poor man's photocopy.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Mack" <dkmt@pacbell.net>
To: "'Autox (E-mail)'" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: engine putogether
> HAHAHAHAHA... Wow, and they were just using this to archive gaskets.
> Printing on the actual material... now THAT is top notch. I have to
> pass that on.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: engine putogether
>
> >An old trick my hot rod buddies use. If you need to keep track of hard
> to find gaskets... photo copy them. As long as the scaling is at 100%,
> it will come out as a perfect B/W copy. Well, saves time in drawing, at
> least. You all have photo copiers in your garage, right? HAHAHAHAHA.
>
> Just to add to Ken's trick, I ran copies of my gaskets, and then ran the
> gasket material (For thin stuff only) through the paper feeder of the
> copy
> machine. Out came a perfect impression to cut from! I did the same trick
> with thin manila card stock for mock up of larger gaskets. I now have a
> file
> full of gasket copies.
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