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Title: No instant gasket
Post by: biggriffin on 29 March 2019, 18:26:55

It's pure porn. Sorry it's from twitter.

  https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1111325125092298756?s=19

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Bigron on 29 March 2019, 18:37:13

British motorbikes could have done with that back in the day.....

Ron.

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 29 March 2019, 19:07:43

Magic!  :y

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: biggriffin on 29 March 2019, 19:28:18

Ive watched quite a few times,, and still find it brilliant...

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: STEMO on 29 March 2019, 19:28:30

That is amazing.

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 29 March 2019, 19:30:02

Early April fool?

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: STEMO on 29 March 2019, 19:50:13

Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 29 March 2019, 19:30:02

Early April fool?

Err....no

https://boingboing.net/2016/11/30/neat-demonstration-of-edm-cutt.html

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: aaronjb on 29 March 2019, 20:51:13

For the next trick - Google up a video of "wringing" gauge blocks together..

If you want another tease - blocks of metal so finely ground that if you slide them together with nothing between them, they stick to each other. Magically. (No, not magnetism)

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Entwood on 29 March 2019, 20:57:19

Quote from: aaronjb on 29 March 2019, 20:51:13

For the next trick - Google up a video of "wringing" gauge blocks together..

If you want another tease - blocks of metal so finely ground that if you slide them together with nothing between them, they stick to each other. Magically. (No, not magnetism)

Nope air pressure, surface tension and molecular interaction .... no magic whatsoever .. pure physics ..  :)

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Nick W on 29 March 2019, 23:52:06

Quote from: aaronjb on 29 March 2019, 20:51:13

For the next trick - Google up a video of "wringing" gauge blocks together..

If you want another tease - blocks of metal so finely ground that if you slide them together with nothing between them, they stick to each other. Magically. (No, not magnetism)

It's high quality ground surfaces that are then lapped flat. A process that's simple in theory, but tricky(and therefore expensive) to get right

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: aaronjb on 30 March 2019, 10:20:51

Quote from: Nick W on 29 March 2019, 23:52:06

Quote from: aaronjb on 29 March 2019, 20:51:13

For the next trick - Google up a video of "wringing" gauge blocks together..

If you want another tease - blocks of metal so finely ground that if you slide them together with nothing between them, they stick to each other. Magically. (No, not magnetism)

It's high quality ground surfaces that are then lapped flat. A process that's simple in theory, but tricky(and therefore expensive) to get right

Which is why I don't have a set of gauge blocks .. I'm too tight to pay for a set! :)

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Bigron on 30 March 2019, 12:32:56

Ah, gauge blocks - that's the term I was looking for! A colleague in the Mechanical Department at college once took a pair of those blocks and "screwed" the faces together, eliminating all of the air between them, and challenged me to separate them.
Could I buggery!
I can't actually remember how he got them apart.....

Ron.

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Andy B on 30 March 2019, 14:11:25

I'd call them slip gauges  :y

You just slide/twist  them apart

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: aaronjb on 30 March 2019, 14:24:30

Quote from: Andy B on 30 March 2019, 14:11:25

I'd call them slip gauges  :y

Have any slipped out of the door? ;) ;D

If I had the time (and inclination) I'd keep an eye on the car boot sales for stuff like that..

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: dave the builder on 30 March 2019, 16:07:33

A pair of 7 n/m breeze blocks provides sufficient datum surface to  work on them french cars  :P  ;D

Title: Re: No instant gasket
Post by: Nick W on 30 March 2019, 16:33:25

Quote from: aaronjb on 30 March 2019, 14:24:30

Quote from: Andy B on 30 March 2019, 14:11:25

I'd call them slip gauges  :y

Have any slipped out of the door? ;) ;D

If I had the time (and inclination) I'd keep an eye on the car boot sales for stuff like that..

You can get a set of 32 metric ones for about £70. I've considered them several times, but doubt just how useful they would be. Pin gauges on the other hand....