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Re: Gasket remover

To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Gasket remover
From: Jeff Scarbrough <jeff@negia.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:22:16 -0500
References: <8625688E.006D1D51.00@notes1.unipres.com>
You can wear away a lot of soft metal with a wire brush...I wouldn't 
recommend it!  What I've always used is ~lots~ of elbow grease and a 
single-edged razor blade in a suitable holder.  Not the fastest, but leaves 
the surfaces relatively undamaged...

Jeff "Schmieraffe" Scarbrough


At 01:13 PM 2/23/00 -0700, you wrote:

>Wire brush attachment in a power hand drill!

>bstinocher@unipres.com wrote:
> >
> > I am in the middle of tearing the old gaskets off of my engine, and am 
> having a
> > heck of a time getting the old gaskets to come off cleanly (after 20 
> years, I
> > don't expect them to come off very well anyway). Anyway, I am currently 
> soaking
> > them with WD40 and Liquid Wrench and then scraping like an idiot with a 
> putty
> > knife to clean it off. Needless to say, I'm tired of scraping. Anything 
> more
> > modern, short of sulphuric acid, that would loosen these things any better?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Bryan
>
>--
>"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer


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