Reply To: Head Gasket Material

[Buccaneer]

Thanks for the ideas!
I’m not sure yet if I have an appropriate size hole saw, but
will come up with a plan tomorrow.
I had thought about making a metal or wood disc to use as
a guide for the exacto knife to cut out the big holes……
not sure if that would be helpful or not.

Many years ago at work I used a gasket cutting machine
to cut a large hole in a gasket. It had an arm with a pivot pin that
one would set up in the center of the hole to be cut, and there was
a fixture that slid on the arm with a exacto type of blade.
You just set the knife on the arm for the radius of the hole to be cut,
then pulled it around a few times in a circle until the hole was cut.
I can’t remember how the gasket sheet was held down on the cutting table.

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