Quote Originally Posted by marksbug View Post
no holes needed in washer, it could be ribed at edges or pocket for it. some thick silycone gadgets use a sleve the right length instead of washer.so silycony gadgets used a thin steel/stainless/aluminum incert between the gasket to stiffen the enitre hasket up so it did not squish out or suck un. I think those are almost gone as many did not work as the silycone could still be over tightened and squish it off the center support sheet.thats when they started encapsulating the gaskets in the parts they were made to fit.a few nubs to hold them in place and a total soround of the part on each edge keeps the soft gasket in plase so it can do it's one job.seal!!! but you dont have that so you need the gasket to have a solid seat(washer at each bolt/screw/fastner location) I suppose for some applications it may not even need that where the load is spread over a large area like timing covers on engines,chevy,ford,mopar and more.and the best part is your gasket would be reusable .witch is great for performance guys. wow, this kinda makes me wish I wasent getting out of the perfromance end of things....keep up the great work!!!

what part of GA are you in?
I would need to do more research on gasket tech but another option could be what was suggested by another commenter. You could you a use second stiffer filament and print it right into the gasket by changing filaments as you print. So you could add a harder nub anywhere you want, in any orientation. You could make some real specialty application gaskets like that with reinforcement exactly where needed.

What do you think the max temp of a timing cover for instance would be? I actually misspoke in the video when i said the max temp was 200c, that is the print temp so it is molten at that point. The glass transition is actually more like 80-100c or 176-212F depending on manufacturer so that would be the max operating temp. So obviously there will not be any TPU head gaskets but valve cover, timing cover, maybe. I believe the forum I heard about this was talking about valve cover.

I am just outside Atlanta, in Marietta.
Thanks!