Gasket sealant ? for the older members

[Steve_D]

Trying to stir my old grey cells and remember the name of a gasket sealer I used in my youth.
It was brown, liquid, smelt pretty bad and if I remember correctly was in a tin with a brush in the lid.

This all because I've just spent an hour scraping runs of the stuff of the sides of an inlet manifold.

May still be around for all I know.

Steve

[Stiggolas]

The red/brown stuff I used to use was Hylomar but that came in a tube. Don't know if the earlier stuff came in a tin....

[andym1603]

The Hylomar I have used was in a tube and was blue in colour.

[sjwb]

Keenok.
Bit like shellac.
The red / brown stuff was probably Hermatite.

Edited by sjwb on Thursday 27th April 13:01

[cmsapms]

It couldn't be Wellseal, that stuff smells lovely! Or is the quality of the aroma in the nostrils of the beholder?

[Little Pete]

Could be Hermatite but back in the dark ages when I was an apprentice there was a sealing compound called Stag. That was brown and sticky and was a pain to get off. The smell was lovely though!

[Sardonicus]

Maybe its ...... Heldlite jointing compound very good for sealing threaded barbs unions etc, I still use it for air line fittings and similar, very popular with the steam enthusiasts so I am lead to believe especially affective with water fittings core plugs and such like ....................................

[one eyed mick]

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

[paintman]

one eyed mick said:

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

[Little Pete]

one eyed mick said:

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

Oh no the memories are coming back!

[Pupp]

Wellseal as sold for years is branded under the Stag name... have always liked the ease of application (paint brush works a treat), integrity of its sealing, and the smell.... bloody awful to part and remove

[Steve_D]

Little Pete said:

one eyed mick said:

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

Oh no the memories are coming back!

Being sent to stores for such items as tartan paint, box of sparks for the grinder or a 'long weight' etc was commonplace but I was sent for a glass hammer.
I knew full well what was going on but knew I had no choice but to stand in the store queue and look an idiot.

The storemans face lit up when I asked for it as it seems his brother was a glass blower and had made him one and I was the first person to ask for it.

Imagine, if you can, an all glass ball pein hammer with the main section of the head in black with the peins in clear. The handle in cream with a wood grain. In the handle was the red diamond logo of the Neslein tool company. It even had the wedge that holds the head on a shaft.
The storeman locked up so he, and the rest of the stores queue, could join me in asking the fitter what he wanted the hammer for.

Probably the first time an apprentice has won the day.

Steve

[Little Pete]

Steve_D said:

Being sent to stores for such items as tartan paint, box of sparks for the grinder or a 'long weight' etc was commonplace but I was sent for a glass hammer.
I knew full well what was going on but knew I had no choice but to stand in the store queue and look an idiot.

The storemans face lit up when I asked for it as it seems his brother was a glass blower and had made him one and I was the first person to ask for it.

Imagine, if you can, an all glass ball pein hammer with the main section of the head in black with the peins in clear. The handle in cream with a wood grain. In the handle was the red diamond logo of the Neslein tool company. It even had the wedge that holds the head on a shaft.
The storeman locked up so he, and the rest of the stores queue, could join me in asking the fitter what he wanted the hammer for.

Probably the first time an apprentice has won the day.

Steve

I had been warned about the usual tricks like a bucket of sparks for the grinder etc but the one day I was working with an old hand who looked down - or so I thought - on the usual pranks. When he said our next job was on an engine on site and we would need a penal extension from the stores, off I went. To this day I can't believe I didn't twig! The store man duly asked what size I needed and I said I needed the biggest he had. The sound of muffled laughter haunted me for days!

[Wacky Racer]

one eyed mick said:

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

Where you ever sent out for a tin of tartan paint or a long stand?

[Steve_D]

Sardonicus said:

Maybe its ...... Heldlite jointing compound very good for sealing threaded barbs unions etc, I still use it for air line fittings and similar, very popular with the steam enthusiasts so I am lead to believe especially affective with water fittings core plugs and such like ....................................

Looks like the right stuff, Does it stink?

Steve

[PositronicRay]

Wacky Racer said:

one eyed mick said:

Stag !! horrible stuff if you wanted to take things apart again and very difficult to remove from personal nuts!!![ you need to be an old apprentice to under stand that last comment !!

Where you ever sent out for a tin of tartan paint or a long stand?

Or a heavy clump.

[Sardonicus]

Steve_D said:

Looks like the right stuff, Does it stink?

Steve

Yes & not in that nice pleasant solvent way either like Wellseal etc

[steveo3002]

Steve_D said:

Trying to stir my old grey cells and remember the name of a gasket sealer I used in my youth.
It was brown, liquid, smelt pretty bad and if I remember correctly was in a tin with a brush in the lid.

This all because I've just spent an hour scraping runs of the stuff of the sides of an inlet manifold.

May still be around for all I know.

Steve

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Permatex-Indian-Head-Gasket-Shellac-Compound-for-paper-rubber-gasket-20539-/322239083048?hash=item4b06f23228:g:RDYAAOxy4dNS9zIj

this sounds like it...works well too

[one eyed mick]

Rubber hammer and glass nails , bubble for spirit level box of BLUE sparks for a Lucas coil and many more

[brrapp]

Similarly, my old boss sent his wife along to the plant nursery for a Pinus Erectus (tall pine tree). The laugh was on him though when the nurseryman gave her one and she came back with a smile on her face.