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piston seals

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:13 am
by maz oner
ive been using hot glue plug as a piston and it seals great with a 1/4" ball valve as the pilot but because i usualy open the valve up fully and pretty fast (not purposly) when filling the chamber the barrel (1/2" copper) has starded diging into the got glue (from slaming up againt and makes in kind of stick when i pilot the valve.
i have some neoprene but i was wanting somthing a little harder, i want to use like the rubber on car hoses or simmilar. the reason i made this post is coz i just wanted to know what other people use other than neoprene.

cheers

maz

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:18 am
by Mr.Russ
Could you use some slingshot tubing?

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:04 pm
by VH_man
This may sound kinda useless, but try a few layers of that craft foam stuff you can buy at miachels. just be sure to glue it on!!! the stuff will pop at like 20 PSI unless its sealed perfectly. if you want better, try the sillicone from those baking mats. just glue that down too, it will pop.......

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:53 pm
by fatcat
i've heard that duct tape works

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:02 pm
by c19o
once i used a piece of rubber from one of those exercise balls. It sealed pretty good.

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:04 pm
by judgment_arms
Gasket material works well. I can get it the home-chepot (tyin’ somethin’ new, instead of home depot, or home cheapo I’ll call it home chepot.), one of the few useful things you can get there.

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:05 am
by maz oner
im using the tube of a bike tyre at the moment and it seams to work pretty good