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Material: Cork-Rubber hatch seal
By:Andrew T
Date: 8/28/2012, 6:00 pm

Curious if anyone has ever used cork-rubber gasket material for hatch seals?
You can get sheets/rolls of the stuff at most any auto part store in varying thicknesses and sizes. Used for things like valve cover or oil pan gaskets.

I know people like to use the closed cell weather stripping for this purpose..
I didn't mold in a channel like I should have when building the lip. I guess I didn't thoroughly do my homework on that one :(
I'm having a fair bit of trouble making the curve around the corners of my hatch cutouts smoothly with that stuff and it doesn't stick very well...
Was thinking maybe a cork-rubber sheet that I could cut out a continuous ring to fit the hatch lip might be a thought?

Messages In This Thread

Material: Cork-Rubber hatch seal
Andrew T -- 8/28/2012, 6:00 pm
Re: Material: Cork-Rubber hatch seal
Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2012, 3:05 am
Re: Material: Cork-Rubber hatch seal
Charles Robinson -- 8/29/2012, 8:07 am