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

[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

[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