Re: Home-made gasket for 2-stroke motor

Al Deveron wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:05:34 +0100, AJH <sylva@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>If it's anything like a Johnston outboard I reckon a normal engine
>>plastic gasket would work as the water gets mixed with the exhaust and
>>thus the temperature is low.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the temperature won't get terribly hot, since the joint is in
> alloy which is connected directly to more alloy that is getting
> dragged through cold sea water. Spares are rather hard to come by.
> Hence my cutting a paper gasket. I ended up using Golden Hermatite,
> and will keep my noodles crossed.. I figger that since Golden
> Hermatite is still on the market after about 40 years, it must be OK.
> 
> In my day, there was Red Hermatite, Green Hermatite and Golden
> Hematite. Red Hermatite was the sh*t we all avoided like the plague.
> Golden Hermatite was useful. We never figgered out what Green
> Hermatite was for. Or perhaps we did, but kept forgetting!
> 
> Al D
> 
The word is figured, I think?

Dave